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Contemplating Music: Challenges to Musicology by Kerman, Joseph
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller notes
- Binding
- Paperback
- Weight
- 0 lbs
- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
- Yes
- ISBN
- 9780674166783
- Subject Area
- Music
- Publication Name
- Contemplating Music : Challenges to Musicology
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Subject
- General, Instruction & Study / Theory
- Publication Year
- 1986
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.6 in
- Item Weight
- 12.8 Oz
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 256 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Harvard University Press
ISBN-10
0674166787
ISBN-13
9780674166783
eBay Product ID (ePID)
582633
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Publication Name
Contemplating Music : Challenges to Musicology
Language
English
Subject
General, Instruction & Study / Theory
Publication Year
1986
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Music
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
12.8 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Reviews
Nothing less than a Who's Who of musicology, and a What's What of theory, analysis, and musical philosophy., A masterly exposition of what Kerman views as the pivotal intellectual issues surrounding postwar musical studies--an exposition that even his critics would readily concede him to be uniquely qualified to undertake. Musicians of all sorts ought to view this as a challenge...to give music the balanced critical attention it deserves., A timely proposal, and one well worth investigating for anyone who is interested in music as a discipline... It represents a useful, and indeed unique, attempt to map out in English the issues of our day., A gracefully polemical survey of 'modern ideas and ideologies of music,' in the course of which the author touches upon many aspects of music and musical life in the 20th century... Important and consistently stimulating., A masterly exposition of what Kennan views as the pivotal intellectual issues surrounding postwar musical studies--an exposition that even his critics would readily concede him to be uniquely qualified to undertake. Musicians of all sorts ought to view this as a challenge...to give music the balanced critical attention it deserves., A timely proposal, and one well worth investigating for anyone who is interested in music as a discipline...It represents a useful, and indeed unique, attempt to map out in English the issues of our day., A gracefully polemical survey of "modern ideas and ideologies of music," in the course of which the author touches upon many aspects of music and musical life in the 20th century...Important and consistently stimulating.
Dewey Edition
19
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
780/.01
Table Of Content
1. Introduction 2. Musicology and Positivism: the Postwar Years 3. Analysis, Theory, and New Music 4. Musicology and Criticism 5. Ethnomusicology and "Cultural Musicology" 6. The Historical Performance Movement 7. Coda Notes Main Works Cited Index
Synopsis
With this book, Joseph Kerman establishes the place of music study firmly in the mainstream of modern intellectual history. He treats not only the study of the history of Western art music--with which musicology is traditionally equated--but also sometimes vexed relations between music history and other fields: music theory and analysis, ethnomusicology, and music criticism. Kerman sees and applauds a change in the study of music toward a critical orientation. As examples, he presents fascinating vignettes of Bach research in the 1950s and Beethoven studies in the 1960s. He sketches the work of prominent scholars and theorists: Thurston Dart, Charles Rosen, Leonard B. Meyer, Heinrich Schenker, Milton Babbit, and many others. And he comments on such various subjects as the amazing absorption of Stephen Foster's songs into the canons of "black" music, the new intensity of Verdi research, controversies about performance on historical instruments, and the merits and demerits of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians . Contemplating Music is filled with wisdom and trenchant commentary. It will spark controversy among musicologists of all stripes and will give many musicians and amateurs an entirely new perspective on the world of music., Contemplating Music is a book for all serious music lovers. Here is the first full-scale compendium of ideas and ideologies in music over the past forty years, a period during which virtually every aspect of music was transformed.
LC Classification Number
ML3791.1
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