The Making of European Music in the Long Eighteenth Century

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The Making of European Music in the Long Eighteenth Century is written by D R M Irving and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0197632181 (ISBN 10) and 9780197632185 (ISBN 13).

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.