Contemplating Music: Challenges to Musicology

by Joseph Kerman

Book Overview

With 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.

Kerman sees and applauds a change in the study of music toward...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674166787
• ISBN13: 9780674166783
• Release Date: March 1986
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"