"International exhibitions were among the most significant cultural phenomena of the late nineteenth century. These vast events aimed to illustrate, through displays of physical objects, the full spectrum of the world's achievements, from industry and manufacturing, to art and d…
Combining approaches from reception studies and historical musicology, this book demonstrates how the representation of music at exhibitions drew the press and public into debates about music's role in society.
Lange vor dem 'body turn' eröffnete Émile Jaques-Dalcroze (1865-1950) mit seiner musikpädagogischen Konzeption neue Perspektiven auf die Verkörperung von Musik. Die moderne Rhythmik befragt und erweitert die Vernetzung von Musik und Bewegung - auch in Verbindung mit transdiszipl…
"Where is the academic study of music today, and what paths should it take into the future? Should we be looking at how music relates to society and constructs meaning through it, rather than how it transcends the social? Can we 'remix' our discipline and attempt to address all …
"Where is the academic study of music today, and what paths should it take into the future? Should we be looking at how music relates to society and constructs meaning through it, rather than how it transcends the social? Can we 'remix' our discipline and attempt to address all …
Where is the academic study of music today, and what paths should it take into the future? Should we be looking at how music relates to society and constructs meaning through it, rather than how it transcends the social? Can we remix' our discipline and attempt to address all mu…
The search for the origins of music : comparative musicology. Comparative musicology and comparative linguistics; Erich Moritz von Hornbostel; Marius Schneider; Georg Schünemann; Two crossover musicologists : Jacques Handschin and Manfred Bukofzer; Nicholas G.J. Ballanta -- Brin…
"The modern discipline of musicology has its roots in early-twentieth-century Germany and in three seemingly distinct but surprisingly connected areas of musical activity: the discovery of Medieval music and music theory through the all-consuming unearthing and decoding of docum…
"The modern discipline of musicology has its roots in early-twentieth-century Germany and in three seemingly distinct but surprisingly connected areas of musical activity: the discovery of Medieval music and music theory through the all-consuming unearthing and decoding of docum…
This book presents a new theory of how to write music history, and offers an exemplar of this new theory in action, in a series of four chapter-length reflexions on Beethoven's heroic style. The first book-length theory of music history since Carl Dahlhaus's Foundations of Music…
Dr. Jonathan Petty looks into the nature of music and musicology, the topic of music as a language, and the theory of music as a language of the emotions.
During the past two decades, there has emerged a growing need to reconsider the objects, axioms and perspectives of writing music history. A certain suspicion towards Francois Lyotard's grand narratives, as a sign of what he diagnosed as our 'postmodern condition', has become mo…
