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For several decades, Scott Burnham has sought to bring a ready ear and plenty of humanistic warmth to musicological inquiry. This title features eighteen of his essays on mainstream Western music, music theory, aesthetics and criticism.

This collection of studies represents the range of Rosand's contribution to the history and criticism of music of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Varied in focus and scope, each of these studies is directed toward developing an understanding of the ways in which music works. Taken together, the articles demonstrate how Rosand has opened entirely new prospects on seventeenth-century music and offered new insight into the more canonical repertoire of the eighteenth century.

This collection brings together an anthology of articles by Thomas Christensen, one of the leading historians of music theory active today. Published over the span of the past 25 years.

Selected from writings from 1984 to 2008, this collection of essays provides an introduction to the author's some of the most innovative and influential work on a wide variety of topics: musicological methodology, issues of staging and performance, Italian opera, program music, and exemplary studies of individual pieces.

As a sociologist Simon Frith takes the starting point that music is the result of the play of social forces, whether as an idea, an experience or an activity. This book addresses these forces, recognising that music is an effect of a continuous process of negotiation, dispute, and agreement between the individual actors who make up a music world.

Provides a collection of the author's studies on critical musicology. This collection gathers essays and lectures, along with an introduction outlining the context of the contributions and commenting on their aims and significance. It provides retrospective view of his achievements in bringing to musicological discourse the experiences of past.

Divided into four parts: Interpretation and Polemics, Gender and Sexuality, Popular Music, and Early Music. Each of the essays treats music as cultural text and has an interdisciplinary appeal. This title is intended for those interested in the life and times of a renegade musicologist.

A selection of sixteen essays covers the period from 1987 to 2004 and brings out the development of the author's ideas over these years. This title explores a variety of topics, ranging from Beethoven to Schenker, from Chinese qin music to jazz and rock, from perceptual psychology to sketch studies and analysis of record sleeves.