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1	Introductory Musicianship: A Workbook more books like this by Theodore A Lynn add to wishlist This workbook emphasizes the fundamental skills of reading and writing music by providing students with ample drill exercises that challenge without overwhelming. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $28.00! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Music in Words a Guide to Researching and Writing about Music more books like this by Trevor Herbert add to wishlist An invaluable reference tool giving much needed advice on how to research and write about music, it addresses all the issues that anyone might be confronted with when undertaking a writing task. It introduces methods and procedures that provide a framework for independent research. It has a two-part format with a 'how-to' section and a quick ... see all copies from $13.58! new only from $13.58!
3	Contemplating Music: Challenges to Musicology more books like this by Joseph Kerman add to wishlist Contemplating Music is a book for all serious music lovers. Here is the first full-scale account of ideas and ideologies in music over the past forty years, a period during much virtually every aspect of music was transformed. see all copies from $7.25! new only from $25.42! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Decentering Music: A Critique of Contemporary Musical Research more books like this by Kevin Ernest Korsyn add to wishlist 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 $6.71! new only from $9.98! \| SVS
5	Keeping Score: Music, Disciplinarity, Culture more books like this by David Schwarz (Editor), Lawrence M Siegel (Editor), Anahid Kassabian (Editor) add to wishlist 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 $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Disciplining Music: Musicology and Its Canons more books like this by Katherine Bergeron (Editor), Philip V Bohlman (Editor) add to wishlist Provocative and timely, Disciplining Music confronts a topic that has sparked considerable debate in recent years: how do musicians and music scholars "discipline" music in their efforts to confer order and meaning on it? This collection of essays addresses this issue by formulating questions about music's canons--rules that measure and order, ... see all copies from $19.24! new only from $24.46!
7	Music, Politics, and the Academy more books like this by Pieter C Van Den Toorn add to wishlist 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 $2.60! new only from $14.90! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Empirical Musicology: Aims, Methods, Prospects more books like this by Eric Clarke (Editor), Nicholas Cook (Editor) add to wishlist This book provides a practical guide to empirical approaches that are ready for incorporation in the contemporary musicologist's toolkit, including perspectives from music theory, computational musicology, ethnomusicology, and the psychology and sociology of music. see all copies from $17.71! new only from $19.76! \| SVS
9	Music and Discourse: Toward a Semiology of Music more books like this by Jean-Jacques Nattiez, Carolyn Abbate (Translator) add to wishlist 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 $29.00! new only from $30.95! \| SVS
10	The Origins of Music more books like this by Nils L Wallin (Editor), Bjorn Merker (Editor), Steven Brown (Editor) add to wishlist 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 $24.95! new only from $30.25! \| SVS
11 view cover	A Handbook for Preparing Graduate Papers in Music more books like this by J David Boyle, Richard K Fiese, Nancy Zavac add to wishlist The purpose of Preparing Graduate Papers in Music is to provide music students with some guidelines to assist in the preparation of theses, essays, dissertations, and other papers that may be written as part of their graduate program. This manual includes information and examples for preparing such papers and is designed specifically to assist ... see all copies from $13.60!
12 view cover	Performing Music in the Age of Recording more books like this by Robert Philip add to wishlist Listeners have enjoyed classical music recordings for more than a century, yet important issues about recorded performances have been little explored. What is the relationship between performance and recording? How are modern audiences affected by the trends set in motion by the recording era? What is the impact of recordings on the lives of ... see all copies from $28.47! new only from $30.00! \| first editions
13 view cover	Musicology and Difference more books like this by Ruth A Solie (Editor) add to wishlist Addressing Western and non-Western music, composers from Francesca Caccini to Charles Ives, and musical communities from 12th-century monks to contemporary opera queens, these essays explore questions of gender and sexuality. see all copies from $8.86! new only from $29.26! \| SVS
14 view cover	Early Recordings and Musical Style: Changing Tastes in Instrumental Performance, 1900-1950 more books like this by Robert Philip add to wishlist Until recently, early recordings were regarded as little more than old-fashioned curiosities by musicians. Scholars and musicians now are beginning to realise their importance as historical documents which preserve the performance of composers and the musicians with whom they worked. In this fascinating study, Robert Philip argues that recordings ... see all copies from $51.25! new only from $51.25! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Introduction to Music Research more books like this by Ruth T. Watanabe add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Musicology and Performance more books like this by Paul Henry Lang, Professor Alfred Mann (Editor), Professor George J Buelow (Editor) add to wishlist This anthology of Paul Henry Lang's writings includes essays written throughout his career on a full array of musical subjects, as well as unpublished chapters of the book on performance practice that he was writing at the time of his death. see all copies from $6.50! new only from $6.50!
17 view cover	Musicology: The Key Concepts more books like this by David Beard, Kenneth Gloag add to wishlist "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 $27.30! new only from $27.30! \| SVS
18	Introduction to Musicology: A Survey of the Fields, Systematic and Historical, of Musical Knowledge and Research more books like this by Glen Haydon add to wishlist see all copies from $3.80! new only from $40.00! \| SVS
19 view cover	Most German of the Arts: Musicology and Society from the Weimar Republic to the End of Hitlers Reich more books like this by Ms. Pamela M Potter add to wishlist This important book investigates the role played by German musicology in buttressing Nazi institutions and ideology. Pamela Potter examines the social, economic, and intellectual factors that caused some German musical scholars to support with such fervor the ideological aims of the Nazis. She argues convincingly that many of the ideas that served ... see all copies from $59.00! new only from $70.49! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Music Library and Research Skills more books like this by Jane Gottlieb add to wishlist Music Library and Research Skills is a complete guide for music majors for researching and completing a paper. It encompasses all the latest technologies and resources, providing not only annotated listings of key items but also informative "how to" side bars and "real life" stories to guide the student. All music majors are required to take a ... see all copies from $50.55! new only from $50.55! \| SVS
21 view cover	Developing Variations: Style and Ideology in Western Music more books like this by Rose Rosengard Subotnik add to wishlist see all copies from $19.95! new only from $30.00!
22 view cover	Rethinking Music more books like this by Nicholas Cook (Editor), Mark Everist (Editor) add to wishlist 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 $60.71! new only from $60.78!
23 view cover	Question of Balance: Charles Seeger's Philosophy of Music more books like this by Taylor Aitken Greer add to wishlist This is a study of Charles Seeger, who left an indelible mark in the fields of musicology, music criticism, ethnomusicology and avant-garde musical composition. It explores the entire corpus of Charles Seeger's writing and highlights the work of those persons who most influenced him, particularly Henri Bergson and Bertrand Russell. The book ... see all copies from $5.75! new only from $5.75! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Constructing musicology more books like this by Alastair Williams add to wishlist There is widespread agreement that musicology has undergone a paradigm shift. This swing can be attributed to two not always separable causes: the wider repertoires now studied and the impact of theory on research in the humanities and social sciences. This analysis attends to both currents, examining and explaining the theoretical issues raised ... see all copies from $20.96! new only from $27.37!
25 view cover	Music Research: A Handbook more books like this by Laurie J Sampsel add to wishlist 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 $28.67! new only from $38.95! \| SVS

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