The Making of European Music in the Long Eighteenth Century
Author | : D R M Irving |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2024 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0197632181 |
In this book, author D. R. M. Irving traces the emergence of such large-scale categories as "European music" and "Western music," showing how they originate from self-fashioning in contexts of intercultural comparison outside the European continent rather than the resolution of national aesthetic differences within it. Taken as a whole, this study demonstrates how reductive labels for the musics of a continent or a hemisphere often imply homogeneity and essentialism, and how a renewed critique of primary sources can help dismantle historiographical constructs that arose within narratives of musical pasts involving Europe.