Contemplating Music: Challenges to Musicology

by Joseph Kerman

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0674166787

ISBN13:9780674166783

Release Date:January 2004

Publisher:Harvard University Press

Length:256 Pages

Weight:0.85 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Related Subjects

Arts, Music & Photography Essays Essays & Correspondence History & Criticism Humanities Literature Movements & Periods Music Performing Arts

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