About this title: The study of music is ancient, but the disciplined study of music dates back only some two centuries, and began by adapting discourse from pre-existing methods of science and the values of the arts. In the course of the 20th-century, such fields as musicology, ethnomusicology, music theory and composition have become separate disciplines, each taught and perpetuated by their own professional societies. Music has thus followed the common tendency of Western culture to divide its experience into branches of thought, but is has not yet become saturated with the self-critical historical ...
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Edition: First edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Bibliographical Society of University of Virginia
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780813916996ISBN:0813916992
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Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780813917009ISBN:081391700X
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
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ISBN-13:9780813916996ISBN:0813916992
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Publisher: University of Virginia Press
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