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1	Introductory Musicianship: A Workbook more books like this by Theodore A Lynn This text/workbook emphasizes the fundamental skills of reading and writing music by providing ample drill exercises that challenge without overwhelming the student. A wealth of examples, both in the text and on the available CD-ROM, along with worksheet exercises reinforce each major concept covered in the book. This gives instructors the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $28.00! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Music Research: A Handbook more books like this by Laurie J Sampsel This text is designed to help music students become familiar with and use the many research tools available to them. The content is arranged by type of research tool (e.g., encyclopedias, periodical indexes, discographies) and includes a general statement about the uses of each tool and an annotated bibliography that points out their purpose, ... see all copies from $28.14! new only from $37.44!
3	Empirical Musicology: Aims, Methods, Prospects more books like this by Eric Clarke (Editor), Nicholas Cook (Editor) The study of music is always, to some extent, "empirical," in that it involves testing ideas and interpretations against some kind of external reality. But in musicology, the kinds of empirical approaches familiar in the social sciences have played a relatively marginal role, being generally restricted to inter-disciplinary areas such as ... see all copies from $17.94! new only from $30.67! \| SVS
4	Music, Politics, and the Academy more books like this by Pieter C Van Den Toorn Advocates of "new musicology" claim that technical methods of music analysis are conservative, elitist, positivist, and emotionally arid. This text challenges those claims, asking why cultural, socio-political or gender-studies approaches to music should be deemed more democratic or expressive of music's content or impact. Why should music ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.90! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Schumann, Dichterliebe more books like this by Arthur Komar (Editor), Robert A Schumann see all copies from $3.68! new only from $18.52! \| SVS
6	Irvine's Writing about Music more books like this by Demar Irvine, Mark A Radice (Revised by) This is a thorough revision of a classic handbook designed primarily as a guide for students writing papers or theses in musical subjects, but useful for anyone writing for publication about music.' see all copies from $8.10! new only from $10.72! \| SVS
7	Contemplating Music: Challenges to Musicology more books like this by Joseph Kerman "Contemplating Music" is a book for all serious music lovers. Here is the first full-scale of ideas and ideologies in music over the past forty years; a period during which virtually every aspect of music was transformed. With this book, Joesph Kerman establishes the place of music study firmly in the mainstream of modern intellectual history. ... see all copies from $7.00! new only from $22.95! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Introduction to Musicology: A Survey of the Fields, Systematic & Historical, of Musical Knowledge & Research more books like this by Glen Haydon see all copies from $7.20! new only from $40.00! \| SVS
9	Musicology and Difference more books like this by Ruth A Solie (Editor) Addressing Western and non-Western music, composers from Francesca Caccini to Charles Ives, and musical communities from twelfth-century monks to contemporary opera queens, these essays explore questions of gender and sexuality. "Musicology and Difference" brings together some of the freshest and most challenging voices in musicology today on a ... see all copies from $12.95! new only from $31.23! \| SVS
10	The Origins of Music more books like this by Nils L Wallin (Editor), Bjorn Merker (Editor), Steven Brown (Editor) What biological and cognitive forces have shaped humankind's musical behaviour and the rich global repertoire of musical structures? What is music for, and why does every human culture have it? What are the universal features of music and musical behaviour across cultures? In this book, musicologists, biologists, anthropologists, archaeologists, ... see all copies from $27.86! new only from $28.00! \| SVS
11	Introduction to Music Research more books like this by Ruth T. Watanabe see all copies from $1.99! new only from $178.46! \| signed copies \| first editions
12 view cover	From the Erotic to the Demonic: On Critical Musicology more books like this by Derek B Scott From the Erotic to the Demonic demonstrates how different musical styles construct ideas of class, sexuality, and ethnic identity. This book will serve as a model for musicologists who want to take a postmodern approach to their inquiries. The clear and lively arguments are supported by ninety musical examples taken from such diverse sources as ... see all copies from $23.25! new only from $23.25! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Keeping Score: Music, Disciplinarity, Culture more books like this by David Schwarz (Editor), Lawrence M Siegel (Editor), Anahid Kassabian (Editor) 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 ... see all copies from $3.99! new only from $3.99! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Queering the Pitch: The New Gay and Lesbian Musicology more books like this by Philip Brett Is music the patriarchy's most powerful weapon in constructing and controlling sexual roles? If you scratch an opera queen, will you find a lesbian? "Queering the Pitch" aims to provoke readers into questioning what it is that makes music pleasurable, and how it is shaped by notions of sexuality and sexual identity. A collection of gay and lesbian ... see all copies from $7.15! new only from $22.49! \| first editions
15	Modern musical scholarship more books like this by Edward Olleson see all copies from $1.99! new only from $39.95! \| first editions
16 view cover	Comparative Musicology and Anthropology of Music: Essays on the History of Ethnomusicology more books like this by Bruno Nettl (Editor), Philip V Bohlman Nineteen scholars from five countries explore significant issues in the history of ethnomusicology and its methodological and theoretical foundations, while providing a critique of the discipline. "This is a useful and enriching collection of articles of interest to musicologists and ethnomusicologists...The authors manage to cover much ground, ... see all copies from $28.25! new only from $28.25!
17	An outline of the history of music more books like this by Karl Nef see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Early Music more books like this by Denis Stevens Originally entitled "Musicology", this work for singers, players and directors, shows how to perform concertos by Vivaldi and his contemporaries, and in addition, features the key role that Sir Thomas Beecham played as a pioneer in early music. see all copies from $8.99! new only from $20.07!
19 view cover	Music and Discourse: Toward a Semiology of Music more books like this by Jean-Jacques Nattiez, Carolyn Abbate (Translator) In this book Jean-Jacques Nattiez, well-known for his pioneering work in musical semiology, examines both music and discourse about music as products of human activity that are perceived in varying ways by various cultures. Asking such questions as "what is a musical work" and "what constitutes music", Nattiez draws from philosophy, anthropology, ... see all copies from $9.75! new only from $30.95! \| SVS
20 view cover	Decentering Music: A Critique of Contemporary Musical Research more books like this by Kevin Korsyn As a work of cultural criticism that recalls the concerns of Foucault, Hayden White, Zizek, and others Decentering Music examines the struggle for the authority to speak about music at a time when the humanities are in crisis. By linking the institutions that support musical research, including professional associations and universities, to ... see all copies from $21.40! new only from $35.17! \| SVS
21 view cover	Rethinking Music more books like this by Nicholas Cook (Editor), Mark Everist (Editor) 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 ... see all copies from $35.00! new only from $50.87! \| SVS
22	Music in Primitive Culture more books like this by Bruno Nettl see all copies from $4.00! first editions
23 view cover	Musicology: The Key Concepts more books like this by David Beard, Kenneth Gloag "Musicology: the Key Concepts "provides a vital reference guide for students of contemporary musicology. Its clear and accessible entries cover a comprehensive range of terms including: - aesthetics - canon - culture - deconstruction - ethnicity - identity - subjectivity - value - work Fully cross-referenced and with suggestions for further ... see all copies from $22.03! new only from $22.03! \| SVS
24 view cover	Rock, the Primary Text: Developing a Musicology of Rock more books like this by Allan F Moore Revised to respond to developments within the discipline and with new material added to reflect the author's and others' further work in this field, this book's focus remains British rock. Its aims are: to establish analytic criteria for rock as a whole; to provide a historicized discussion of British rock; and to enable a critical re-evaluation ... see all copies from $29.87! new only from $29.87! \| first editions
25	Doctoral dissertations in musicology more books like this by Cecil Adkins, Alis Dickinson, American Musicological Society see all copies from $3.74!

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