MUS4899: Music History and Theory Bibliography
This guide highlights the course reading list for MUS4899: The History and Theory of Bibliography.
Musicology and Critique
Disciplining Music by Call Number: ML3797.1 .D5 1992Bergeron, Katherine, and Philip V. Bohlman. Disciplining Music: Musicology and Its Canons.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.
Provocative and timely, Disciplining Music confronts a topic that has sparked considerable debate in recent years: how do musicians and music scholars "discipline" music in their efforts to confer order and meaning on it? This collection of essays addresses this issue by formulating questions about music's canons--rules that measure and order, negotiate cultural constraints, reconstruct the past, and shape the future. Written by scholars representing the fields of historical musicology, ethnomusicology, and music theory, many of the essays tug and push at the very boundaries of these traditional division within the study of music.
Queering the Pitch by Call Number: ML55 .Q45 1993Brett, Philip, Elizabeth Wood, and Gary C. Thomas, eds. Queering the Pitch: The New Gay and Lesbian Musicology. New York: Routledge, 2006.
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When the first edition of Queering the Pitch was published in early 1994, it was immediately hailed as a landmark and defining work in the new field of Gay Musicology. In light of the explosion of Gay Musicology since 1994, a new edition of Queering the Pitch is timely and needed. In this new work, the editors are including a landmark essay by Philip Brett on Gay Musicology, its history and scope. Along with this new historical essay, the editors are contributing a new introduction that outlines the changes that have occurred over the last decade as Gay Musicology has grown.
Gender and the Musical Canon by Call Number: ML3890 .C58 1993Citron, Marcia J. Gender and the Musical Canon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Why is music composed by women so marginal to the standard 'classical' repertoire? In attempting to answer this fundamental question, this book examines the practices and attitudes that have led to the exclusion of women composers from the received 'canon' of performed musical works. Focusing on the tradition since 1800, Marcia J. Citron makes substantial use of feminist and interdisciplinary theory.
Rethinking Music by Call Number: ML3797.1 .R48 1999XCook, Nicholas, and Mark Everist, eds. Rethinking Music. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Rethinking Music offers a comprehensive re-evaluation of current thinking about music. In this book, 24 distinguished musicologists, music theorists, and ethnomusicologists review different dimensions of musical study, revealing a range of concerns that are shared across the discipline: the nature of musicological practice, its social and ethical dimensions, issues of canon and value, and the relationship between academic study and musical experience.
