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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	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 $23.98! \| first editions \| SVS
3	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 $2.80! new only from $14.90! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Queering the Pitch: The New Gay and Lesbian Musicology more books like this by Philip Brett add to wishlist 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 $8.22! new only from $28.46! \| first editions
5	Music in Primitive Culture more books like this by Bruno Nettl add to wishlist see all copies from $6.00! first editions
6	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 $11.66! new only from $13.58!
7	Studying Popular Music more books like this by Richard Middleton add to wishlist As interest in popular music has increased, so the need for better ways of studying it has become more urgent. It is the author's contention that popular music can be properly understood only through an interdisciplinary method, and this book aims to demonstrate this through a critical analysis of issues and approaches in a variety of areas, ... see all copies from $9.88! new only from $41.40! \| first editions
8	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 $6.60! new only from $10.40! \| SVS
9	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 $17.95! new only from $53.99!
10	From the Erotic to the Demonic: On Critical Musicology more books like this by Derek B Scott add to wishlist 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 $18.50! new only from $18.50! \| SVS
11	Comparative Musicology and Anthropology of Music: Essays on the History of Ethnomusicology more books like this by Bruno Nettl (Editor), Philip Vilas Bohlman add to wishlist 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 $28.00! new only from $36.88! \| SVS
12 view cover	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
13 view cover	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 $12.95! new only from $36.00! \| SVS
14	Modern musical scholarship more books like this by Edward Olleson add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $39.95! \| first editions
15 view cover	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 $27.00! new only from $30.25! \| SVS
16 view cover	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 $19.55! new only from $25.62!
17	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 $7.50! new only from $40.00! \| SVS
18 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 $17.29! new only from $30.00! \| SVS
19 view cover	Rock, the Primary Text: Developing a Musicology of Rock more books like this by Allan F Moore add to wishlist 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 $28.37! new only from $28.37! \| first editions
20 view cover	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 $26.71! new only from $30.95! \| SVS
21 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 $12.50! new only from $32.34! \| SVS
22	Doctoral dissertations in musicology more books like this by Cecil Adkins, Alis Dickinson, American Musicological Society add to wishlist see all copies from $3.98!
23 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 $22.74! new only from $22.74! \| SVS
24 view cover	Music Discourse from Classical more books like this by Professor Maria Rika Maniates (Editor) add to wishlist The Study of Medieval And Renaissance Music Relies Heavily On Scholarly editions and translations of theoretical and liturgical sources to provide means of interpreting notation, style, and compositional processes. The editing of these texts and sources remains a challenging one for professional musicologists and social historians, as all ... see all copies from $2.93! new only from $25.00! \| first editions
25 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 $9.25! new only from $9.25!

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