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Historical Musicology: Sources, Methods, Interpretations

Historical Musicology: Sources, Methods, Interpretations

Crist, Stephen A.
Marvin, Roberta Montemorra
MacDonald, Claudia

Paperback

Series: Eastman Studies in Music, Book 28

Music Instruction: GeneralGeneral World HistoryMusic Reference

ISBN10: 1580463010
ISBN13: 9781580463010
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Published: Oct 1 2008
Pages: 444
Weight: 1.30
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Seventeen studies by noted experts that demonstrate recent approaches toward the creative interpretation of primary sources regarding Renaissance and Baroque music, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Verdi, Debussy, and beyond.

How do we know what notes a composer intended in a given piece? -- how those notes should be played and sung? -- the nature of musical life in Bach's Leipzig, Schubert's Vienna? -- how music related to literature and other arts and social currents in different times and places? -- what attitudes musicians and music lovers had toward the music that they heard and made?

We know all this from musical manuscripts and prints, opera libretti, composers'letters, reviews in newspapers and magazines, archival data, contemporary pedagogical writings, essays on aesthetics, and much else. Some of these categories of sources are the bedrock of music history and musicology. Others havebegun to be examined only in recent years.

Furthermore, musicologists -- including biographers of famous composers -- now explore these various kinds of sources in a variety of ways, some of them richly traditional and others exciting and novel.

These seventeen essays, all newly written, use a wide array of source materials to probe issues pertaining to a cross section of musical works and musical life from the sixteenth through the twentieth centuries.

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