{"product_id":"contemplating-music-challenges-to-musicology-paperback","title":"Contemplating Music: Challenges to Musicology - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoseph Kerman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith this book, Joseph Kerman establishes the place of music study firmly in the mainstream of modern intellectual history. He treats not only the study of the history of Western art music--with which musicology is traditionally equated--but also sometimes vexed relations between music history and other fields: music theory and analysis, ethnomusicology, and music criticism. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKerman sees and applauds a change in the study of music toward a critical orientation. As examples, he presents fascinating vignettes of Bach research in the 1950s and Beethoven studies in the 1960s. He sketches the work of prominent scholars and theorists: Thurston Dart, Charles Rosen, Leonard B. Meyer, Heinrich Schenker, Milton Babbit, and many others. And he comments on such various subjects as the amazing absorption of Stephen Foster's songs into the canons of \"black\" music, the new intensity of Verdi research, controversies about performance on historical instruments, and the merits and demerits of \u003ci\u003eThe New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eContemplating Music\u003c\/i\u003e is filled with wisdom and trenchant commentary. It will spark controversy among musicologists of all stripes and will give many musicians and amateurs an entirely new perspective on the world of music.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eContemplating 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.57 x 8.98 x 6.13 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 15, 1986\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47452409397426,"sku":"9780674166783","price":70.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/b6c7e332932658336cf75d0ed667ba44.webp?v=1778815087","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/contemplating-music-challenges-to-musicology-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}