Rethinking Music by Nicholas Cook (English) Paperback Book

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Rethinking Music offers a comprehensive re-evaluation of current thinking about music. In this book, 24 distinguished musicologists, music theorists, and ethnomusicologists review different dimensions of musical study, revealing a range of concerns that are shared across the discipline: thenature of musicological practice, its social and ethical dimensions, issues of canon and value, and the relationship between academic study and musical experience.

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Academic musical studies have gone through a period of rapid change in recent years; the musicological agenda has been expanded to include a broad range of sociological and ideological issues, while the very status of music theory (with its apparent dependence on the autonomous musical work) has been thrown into doubt. The time is ripe for a comprehensive re-evaluation of our thinking about music in the light of such recent developments. Rethinking Music is in two parts. Part 1 focuses on approaches to musical texts, covering such topics as the relationship of text and context, concepts of unity and meaning in music, and the role of empirical approaches, together with compositional and performance perspectives. Underlying the volume as a whole is the question of how far, and in what ways, music theory can remain viable and valuable in a changing intellectual evironment. Part 2 sets out to reflect the nature of the discipline of musicology, and the ways in which it has been, and may be, challenged and enriched. The volume examines music history and cultural histories of music.The status of the musical text is a subject that has clear resonances in Part 1, and themes developed in Part 2 include questions of ethics, pedagogy, performance, and popular music as subjects for scholarly enquiry, questions of reception, canon, gender, and historiography.

Author Biography

Nicholas Cook and Mark Everist are both at the University of Southampton.

Table of Contents

Part I. 1. Ontologies of Music, Philip V. Bohlman 2. Analysis in Context, Jim Samson 3. Beyond Privileged Contexts: Intertextuality, Influence, and Dialogue, Kevin Korsyn 4. Autonomy/Heteronomy: The Contexts of Musicology, Arnold Whittall 5. Going Flat: Post-Hierarchical Music Theory and the Musical Surface, Robert Fink 6. The Challenge of Semiotics, Kofi Agawa 7. An Experimental Music Theory?, Robert Gjerdingen 8. Concepts of Musical Unity, Fred Everett Maus 9. How Music Matters: Poetic Content Revisited, Scott Burnham 10. Translating Musical Meaning: The Nineteenth-Century Performer as Narrator, John Rink 11. Analysing Performance and Performing Analysis, Nicholas Cook 12. Composer, Theorist, Composer/Theorist, Joseph Dubiel Part II. 13. The Institutionalization of Musicology: Perspectives of a North American Ethnomusicologist, Bruno Nettl 14. Other Musicologies: Exploring Issues and Confronting Practice in India, Regula Burckhardt Qureshi 15. The History of Musical Canon, William Weber 16. The Historiography of Music: Issues of Past and Present, Leo Treitler 17. Reception Theories, Canonic Discourses, and Musical Value, Mark Everist 18. The Musical Text, Stanley Boorman 19. Finding the Music in Musicology: Performance History and Musical Works, Jos

Long Description

Academic musical studies have gone through a period of rapid change in recent years; the musicological agenda has been expanded to include a broad range of sociological and ideological issues, while the very status of music theory (with its apparent dependence on the autonomous musical work) has been thrown into doubt. The time is ripe for a comprehensive re-evaluation of our thinking about music in the light of such recent developments. Rethinking Music is in two parts. Part 1 focuses on approaches to musical texts, covering such topics as the relationship of text and context, concepts of unity and meaning in music, and the role ofempirical approaches, together with compositional and performance perspectives. Underlying the volume as a whole is the question of how far, and in what ways, music theory can remain viable and valuable in a changing intellectual evironment. Part 2 sets out to reflect the nature of the discipline of musicology, and the ways in which it has been, and may be, challenged and enriched. The volume examines music history and cultural histories of music. The status of themusical text is a subject that has clear resonances in Part 1, and themes developed in Part 2 include questions of ethics, pedagogy, performance, and popular music as subjects for scholarly enquiry,questions of reception, canon, gender, and historiography.

Details ISBN019879004X Pages 592 Language English ISBN-10 019879004X ISBN-13 9780198790044 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 780 Year 1999 Publication Date 1999-06-30 Imprint Oxford University Press Place of Publication Oxford Country of Publication United Kingdom Edited by Nicholas Cook Birth 1950 Author Nicholas Cook Short Title RETHINKING MUSIC REV/E Publisher Oxford University Press, USA Edition Description Revised Audience Professional and Scholarly DOI 10.1604/9780198790044 UK Release Date 1999-03-18 AU Release Date 1999-03-18 NZ Release Date 1999-03-18 Illustrations 33 music examples We've got this

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