Berkeleyan
Publications
The Oxford History of Western Music
Tim Page, music critic for the Washington Post, described the book as "erudite, engaging, and suffused throughout with a mixture of brilliance and delirium," then followed his high praise by parsing which composers received multiple mentions (Igor Stravinsky) and which got short shrift (Jean Sibelius). Quibbles notwithstanding, readers must consider the sheer magnitude and range of Taruskin's 13-year labor, which the San Francisco Chronicle's Joshua Kosman calls "an achievement unlikely to be equaled."
Oxford University Press, 2004; 4,272 pages