Music's intellectual history
By: edited by Zdravko Blažeković, Barbara Dobbs Mackenzie
Series: RILM perspectives -- 1; RILM perspectives -- 1.
Publisher: Répertoire international de la littérature musicale
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 938
ISBN-13: 9781932765052
Subjects: Musicology; Congresses; History; Music; Historiography
Notes: Inaugual issue in the series, inspired by the conference Music's intellectural history : founders, followers, and fads, held from 16-19 March 2005.

Contains 66 essays.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Personalities: music scholars. Sebald Heyden (1499-1561) : the first historical musicologist? / Ruth I. DeFord ; Musical transmission of Garcilaso de la Vega's poems in Cervantes's texts / Juan José Pastor Comín ; To write historically about music during the 16th century : Pietro Gaetano / Philippe Vendrix ; "Leopold Mozart ... a man of much ... sagacity" : the revival of humanist scholarship in his Gründliche Violinschule (Augsburg, 1756) / Walter Kurt Kreyszig ; The impact of Rousseau on the histories of Burney and Hawkins : a story in the ethics of musicology / Edward Green ; Anton Schindler as destroyer and forger of Beethoven's conversation books : a case for decriminalization / Theodore Albrecht ; Music history as reflected in the works of Hans Christian Andersen / Anna Harwell Celenza ; An early crusader for music as culture : Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl / Sanna F. Pederson ; Franjo Ksaver Kuhać (1834-1911) and the beginnings of music scholarship in Croatia / Zdravko Blažeković ; Camille Saint-Saëns musicologist? Effects, influence, and traditions / Timothy Flynn ; The Cecilian movment and musical historiography in Italy : the contribution of Angelo De Santi / Antonio Lovato ; Léo Delibes by Henri de Curzon : a stereotypical biography of a French musician in the early 20th century / Bérengère De L'Épine & Pauline Girard ; The origins of the agenda of medieval musicology : Friedrich Ludwig and Jacques Handschin / Anna Maria Busse Berger ; The founding of French musicology : looking around Pierre Aubry's workshop (1896-1910) / Rémy Campos ; Curt Sachs as a theorist for music museology / Florence Gétreau ; "Those unheard are sweeter..."? Hungarian music and musicians in the 20th century : an incomplete history / André Balog ; Music historiography and terra incognita : the case of Dragan Plamenac / Ennio Stipčević ;; title: God and revolution : rewriting the absolute. Bence Szabolcsi and the discourse of Hungarian musical life / Lóránt Péteri ; Orpheus in the jungle : constructing music history in a novel / Andreas Vejvar ; Robert Stevenson's Iberian world connections : Haydn and interconnected music histories in Latin American studies / Beatriz Magalhăes-Castro; title: Personalities: composers. Nationalism, liberalism, and commemorative practice : a tale of two 19th-century Bach editions / Mark Burford ; Writing a nation's musical taste : Hawkins, Burney, and the popularization of Händel in the first histories of music / David Hunter ; Handel's reception and the rise of music historiography in Britain / Ilias Chrissochoidis ; Hugo Wolf and the "evolution" of the lied / Heather Platt ; Schoenberg in America reconsidered : a historiographic investigation / Sabine Feisst ; Stravinsky stratège? Le compositeur face à l'exégèse de son œuvre en Europe (1926-34) / Valérie Dufour ; Reconstructing Ligeti / Rachel Beckles Willson; title: National studies. Entre instrumentalisation et sécularisation : l'historiographie du plain-chant de Nivers à Lebeuf / Xavier Bisaro ; "The judgment of Paris" : evaluations by the Académie des Beaux-Arts of works by winners of the Prix de Rome (1803-ca. 1840) / Cécile Reynaud ; Viewing the past : differing concepts of early music history in 19th-century Germany and France / Stefan Morent ; The Allgemeine Deutsche Musikverein : forming German national identity through new music / James Deaville ; The rise of music historiography in Italy in the second half of the 19th century : between positivism and evolutionism / Ivano Cavallini ; The music of the Italian Renaissance as a national myth / Marco Di Pasquale ; The founders of Croatian music historiography : music, history, politics, and ideology / Sanja Majer-Bobetko ; Harmonizing the past / Sindhumathi K. Revuluri ;; title: Les traductions d'opéras au travers de l'enregistrement sonore : quatre enregistrements de a sérénade de Don Juan dans quatre traductions françaises différentes / Frédéric Lemmers ; A matter of faith : intellectual history, institutional governance, and musicians' education in the early-20th-century USA / Karen Ahlquist ; The first All-India Music Conferences and the advent of modern Indian musicology / Cleveland Johnson ; How 19th-century musical folklore created Poland's Górale diaspora in 20th-century Chicago / Timothy J. Cooley ; Ideas about "Hungarian music" in early Hungarian musicology / Lynn Hooker ; Nettie Quinn's guide to nationalism in music / Michael B. Beckerman ; Musicology and the force of political fiction : the debate on politically engaged music at the beginning of the 1970s / Beate Kutschke ; Communist ethnomusicology and the formation and growth of nationalist ethnocentrism / Marin Marian-Bălaşa ; Constructing policies of image and identity : the local and the global in Romanian musicology after the Second World War / Luana Stan ; Macunaíma out of the woods : the intersection of musicology and ethnomusicology in Brazil / James Melo ; Den europæiske musikkulturs historie (1982-84) and its ideological and academic background / Niels Krabbe ; Music historiography in New Zealand / Martin Lodge ; Enlightening a continent : the legacy of a music history in Africa / Daniël G. Geldenhuys; title: Encyclopedias. Hugo Riemann's Musik-Lexikon as a mirror of German music history / Nico Schüler ; The place of small musical cultures in reference books / Melita Milin ; Russia's New Grove : priceless resource or propagandistic rubbish? / Philip Ewell ; A man and his portraits : the image of Gustav Ernasaks in (Soviet) writings on music / Urve Lippus; title: Periodicals. The Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung : cradle of modern musicology / Robin Wallace ; Leipzig's Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung and the Viennese classical canon / Carol Padgham Albrecht ; Intertextual relations between the Serbian and Viennese concepts of 19th-century music periodicals / Tatjana Marković ; La revue musicale (1920-40) and the founding of a modern music / Michel Duchesneau ; Towards a topology of aesthetic discussion contained in La revue musicale of the 1920s / Danick Trottier ; Dance in Henry Prunières's La revue musicale (1920-40) : between the early and the modern / Marie-Noëlle Lavoie; title: Historiography & its directions. Changing the musical object : approaches to performance analysis / Nicholas Cook ; Musicology and performance / Daniel Leech-Wilkinson ; Kategorie or Wertidee? The early years of the International Folk Music Council / James R. Cowdery ; Music's context : genealogical and political considerations / James Robert Currie ; Rediscovering "sonoristics" : a groundbreaking theory from the margins of musicology / Zbigniew Granat ; Numbering fetishism : the history of the use of information theory as a tool for musical analysis / Vanessa Hawes ; Musical biography : further thoughts / Jolanta T. Pekacz ; Musicology and fiction / Michael Saffle.