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Current Thought in Musicology

John W Grubbs

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Description:Nine lectures from the 1971 symposium at the University of Texas at Austin, on music history, theory and composition, education, and performance.Ranging from the Middle Ages to the present and touching on all the major disciplines of musicology, the nine papers collected in this volume constitute a broad overview of the direction of music scholarship in the 1970s.In "Tractatus Esthetico-Semioticus: Model of the Systems of Human Communication," Charles Seeger presents a model of the situations in which the study of humanistic art may best be conducted. Charles Hamm writes in "The Ecstatic and the Didactic: A Pattern in American Music" of the pattern of conflicting points of view in music history and theory. American composer Elliott Carter, in his chapter titled "Music and the Time Screen," presents a lucid explanation of his compositional process, including his concept of musical time. In "Instruments and Voices in the Fifteenth-Century Chanson," Howard Mayer Brown suggests the nature of fifteenth-century performance, drawn from iconography and various musical sources. "Nottebohm Revisited," by Lewis Lockwood, reexamines Beethoven's sketchbooks, showing the extent to which performing editions of his work must be updated. Daniel Heartz's article, "The Chanson in the Humanist Era," is multidisciplinary and will interest a variety of scholars, including French historians and French literary historians. Gilbert Chase applies structuralism to musicological studies in his chapter, "Musicology, History, and Anthropology: Current Thoughts." The concluding essays, "The Prospects for Research in Medieval Music in the 1970s," by Gilbert Reaney, and "The Library of the Mind: Observations on the Relationship between Musical Scholarship and Bibliography," by Vincent Duckles, provide a unique view of the opportunities for further work in these areas.Also included is an introduction by the editor, notes on the contributors, and an index.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Current Thought in Musicology. To get started finding Current Thought in Musicology, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 330

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: University of Texas Press

Release: 2014

ISBN: 0292768745

Description: Nine lectures from the 1971 symposium at the University of Texas at Austin, on music history, theory and composition, education, and performance.Ranging from the Middle Ages to the present and touching on all the major disciplines of musicology, the nine papers collected in this volume constitute a broad overview of the direction of music scholarship in the 1970s.In "Tractatus Esthetico-Semioticus: Model of the Systems of Human Communication," Charles Seeger presents a model of the situations in which the study of humanistic art may best be conducted. Charles Hamm writes in "The Ecstatic and the Didactic: A Pattern in American Music" of the pattern of conflicting points of view in music history and theory. American composer Elliott Carter, in his chapter titled "Music and the Time Screen," presents a lucid explanation of his compositional process, including his concept of musical time. In "Instruments and Voices in the Fifteenth-Century Chanson," Howard Mayer Brown suggests the nature of fifteenth-century performance, drawn from iconography and various musical sources. "Nottebohm Revisited," by Lewis Lockwood, reexamines Beethoven's sketchbooks, showing the extent to which performing editions of his work must be updated. Daniel Heartz's article, "The Chanson in the Humanist Era," is multidisciplinary and will interest a variety of scholars, including French historians and French literary historians. Gilbert Chase applies structuralism to musicological studies in his chapter, "Musicology, History, and Anthropology: Current Thoughts." The concluding essays, "The Prospects for Research in Medieval Music in the 1970s," by Gilbert Reaney, and "The Library of the Mind: Observations on the Relationship between Musical Scholarship and Bibliography," by Vincent Duckles, provide a unique view of the opportunities for further work in these areas.Also included is an introduction by the editor, notes on the contributors, and an index.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Current Thought in Musicology. To get started finding Current Thought in Musicology, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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