Title: Contemplating music :
Authors: Kerman, Joseph,
Date: 1985
Publisher: Harvard University Press,
Physical description: 255 pages ; 24 cm
Language: English
LC classification: M
Abstract: Essays discuss musicology, music theory and criticism, the historical performance movement, and a variety of current musical research.
Contents: Introduction -- Musicology and positivism: the postwar years -- Analysis, theory, and new music -- Musicology and criticism -- Ethnomusicology and "cultural musicology" -- The historical performance movement -- Coda.
Notes: Includes index.
Subject headings (LCSH): Musicology.