Musicology: The Key Concepts

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Routledge, Jan 22, 2016 - Art - 376 pages

Now in an updated 2nd edition, Musicology: The Key Concepts is a handy A-Z reference guide to the terms and concepts associated with contemporary musicology. Drawing on critical theory with a focus on new musicology, this updated edition contains over 35 new entries including:

  • Autobiography
  • Music and Conflict
  • Deconstruction
  • Postcolonialism
  • Disability
  • Music after 9/11
  • Masculinity
  • Gay Musicology
  • Aesthetics
  • Ethnicity
  • Interpretation
  • Subjectivity

With all entries updated, and suggestions for further reading throughout, this text is an essential resource for all students of music, musicology, and wider performance related humanities disciplines.

 

Contents

Bibliography
262
Name index
337

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About the author (2016)

David Beard is Senior Lecturer in Music at Cardiff University. He is the author of Harrison Birtwistle's Operas and Music Theatre (Cambridge University Press, 2012) and he has published on Birtwistle in Music Analysis, Twentieth-Century Music and the Cambridge Opera Journal. He has contributed chapters on Birtwistle, Peter Maxwell Davies and Judith Weir in various books, including Ancient Drama in Music for the Modern Stage (2010), Peter Maxwell Davies Studies (Cambridge University Press, 2009), and Dichotonies: Music and Gender (2009). Kenneth Gloag is Reader in Musicology at Cardiff University. His publications include books on Tippett's A Child of Our Time (Cambridge, 1999) and Nicholas Maw: Odyssey (2008). He is the author of Postmodernism in Music (Cambridge, 2012), and has co-edited and contributed chapters to Peter Maxwell Davies Studies (Cambridge, 2009) and The Cambridge Companion to Michael Tippett (Cambridge, 2013).