Proseminar on Musicology I: Systematic Studies 

音樂學理 論與方法(一)

 

InstructorYuh-wen Wang

SemesterFall 2007

Credit3

 

This course is divided into two parts. The first part concerns thesis writing, and

occupies weeks 1-3 and 13-18. It is taught by Prof. Yang Chien-chang. The second

part concerns systematic studies in musicology, music theory and analysis; and occupies weeks 4-12. It is taught by Prof. Wang Yuhwen. This syllabus is only for the second part.

 

Course goals

 

1To orient students to recent developments and scholarly interests in current music academia, especially music theory, analysis and systematic musicology;

2To cultivate in students reading and critique ability of musical academic writings

3To cultivate students’ ability in identifying the implied and hidden conception and preconception in the readings

4To introduce to students ways of academic writings

5To introduce to students how to find research topics

 

Main Reference

 

Cook, Nicholas. A Guide to Musical Analysis. New York: George Braziller, 1987.

 

Requirements

 

For each class there are assigned readings. Students need to finish the reading and write a short outline of the essay of approximately 400 words, no more than one page. This is due at the class. The contents, main points, arguments, process of logic in the reading, as well as related topics and preconceptions will be discussed in the class.

 

Evaluation:

 

Class discussion 30%, weekly summary assignment 30%, final project 40%

Weekly report: as explained above.

 

Final report: write and make an oral presentation of a review of a book, a chapter from a book or an essay. The essay or book to be reviewed should be selected in consultation with the instructor. Students should show their independent thinking in this project. Therefore in the written paper, the criticism and comment should comprise at least 60%, and the summary part should not exceed 40%.

 

Syllabus

 

Wk 1 : Introduction

Wk 2 : History of Musicology (1)

Wk 3 : History of Musicology (2)

Wk 4 : Schenkerian theory & analysis

Wk 5 : criticism toward Schenkerian theory and analysis

Wk 6 : Set theory and analysis

Wk 7 : criticism toward set theory and analysis

Wk 8 : Music Psychology, Perception & Cognition: Implication/Realization model (Meyer)

Wk 9 : Music Semiotics/Semiology

Wk 10 : Cultural Criticism/Critical Musicology, Gender Studies/Music Feminism

Wk 11 : New Musicology and Recent development in music theory

Wk 12: Final Project oral report

Wk 13: Take a leave

Wk 14: 論文基本結構

Wk 15: 論點與論證

Wk 16: 論文計畫寫作 I

Wk 17: 論文計畫寫作 II

Wk 18: 研究計畫檢討報告

 

Bibliography

 

The scope of musicology

"Musicology" from the New Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd ed.

Part I (The Nature of Musicology): 1, 3, 4, 5

(Definitions, Scope, Historical and systematic musicology, New trends)

Part II-2: theoretical and analytical method

Kerman, Joseph. "American Musicology in the 1990s," Journal of Musicology 9/2 (1991):

Mugglestone, Erica. “Guido Adler’s ‘The Scope, Method, and Aim of Musicology’ (1885): An English Translation with an Historico-Analytical Commentary.” Yearbook for Traditional Music 13 (1981): 1-21.

江玉玲.〈百年來德奧地區「音樂學分類」發展 史概述〉,「二十一世紀的展望∼人文,科技與藝術」研討會, 東 吳大學,2000

Kerman, Contemplating Music: Challenges to Musicology. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1985.

Stock, Jonathan. “New Musicologies, Old Musicologies: Ethnomusicology and the Study of Western Music,” CurrentMusicology 62 (1998): 40-68.

蔡良玉.〈西方對音樂史學的反思和我們研究中 的幾個問題〉《音樂學文集,1956-1991》,于潤洋編.北京:中央音樂學院報社,1992

楊燕迪.〈實證主義及其衰落-英美二次世界大 戰後的音樂學發展略述〉《中國音樂學》1990/1.

Bent, Margaret. "Fact and Value in Contemporary Scholarship," Musical Times Feb. 1986 (127): 85-89.

Cross, Jonathan. “Editorial,” Music Analysis 22/i-ii (2003).

 

Schenkerian theory and analysis

Cook, Nicholas. A Guide to Musical Analysis, ch. 2.

"Musicology" from the New Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd ed.

II-2: Theoretical and Analytical Method

Bent, Ian. Analysis. New York: Norton, 1987; pp. 81-84.

Dunsby, Jonathan and Arnold Whittall. Music Analysis in Theory and Practice. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988. pp. 23-61.

Schenker, Heinrich.〈自由作曲〉(Der Freie Satz); vol. 1 & 2.陳世賓譯。北京:人民音樂出版社,1997.

----------. Five Graphic Music Analysis. New York: Dover, 1969.

----------. The Masterwork in Music: A Yearbook. Vol. 1. Trans. by William Drabkin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Jonas, Oswald. Introduction to the Theory of Heinrich Schenker (first published in 1934). New York: Schirmer, 1982.

Forte, Allen and Steven E. Gilbert. Introduction to Schenkerian Analysis. New York: Norton, 1982.

Forte, Allen. “Schenker’s Conception of Musical Structure”

于蘇賢,《申克音樂分析理論概要》人民音樂出 版社。

----------.〈體系概述〉,《中央音樂學院學報》1987/2.

 

COMMENTARIES:

Cook, Nicholas. A Guide to Musical Analysis, pp. 54-66.

----------. "Music Theory and 'Good Comparison': A Viennese Perspective," Journal of Music Theory 33/1 (1989): 117-43.

----------. "The Perception of Large-scale Tonal Closure," Music Perception 5 (1987): 197-205.

Dunsby and Whittall. Music Analysis in Theory and Practice. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988. pp. 53-61.

London, Justin & Ronald Rodman. “Musical Genre and Schenkerian Analysis,” Journal of Music Theory 42/1 (1998): 101-24.

Snarrenberg, Robert. "Competing Myths: the American Abandonment of Schenker's Organism," in Theory, Analysis and Meaning in Music, ed. Anthony Pople. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

----------. Schenker's Interpretive Practice. New York: Cambridge UP, 1997.

Kramer, Lawrence. "Haydn's Chaos, Schenker's Order; or, Hermeneutics and Musical Analysis: Can They Mix?" 19th-C Music 15/1 (1992).

Narmour, Eugene. Beyond Schenkerism. U of Chicago Press, 1977

----------. "Some major Theoretical Problems Concerning the Concept of Hierarchy in the Analysis of Tonal Music,"Music Perception 1/2 (1983-84): 176-91

Van den Toorn, Pieter C. Music, Politics and the Academy. (Berkeley: UC Press, 1995), pp. 16-19 & footnote 10. Burnham, Scott. "Counterpoint: the Criticism of Analysis and the Analysis of Criticism," 19th-C Music 15/1 (1992)

Yeston, M. Readings in Schenkerian Analysis and Other Approaches, esp. p. 183, Ex. 13 (Schachter's analysis of Schubert's Moment Musical op. 94/1, mentioned in Cook p. 54)

Rothstein, William. “The American Canization of Heinrich Schenker,” In Theory Only 9/1 (1986): 5-17. Reprinted in Hedi Siegel, ed. Schenker Studies (Cambridge University Press, 1990): 193-203.

 

Set theory and analysis

Cook, 124-51.

Dunsby and Whittall, 131-85.

Forte, Allen. The Structure of Atonal Music. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1973.

----------. "Pitch-Class Set Analysis Today," Music Analysis 4/1-2 (1985): 29-58.

羅忠鎔,《無調性音樂結構》,未出版。

劉彥玲,《Allen Forte音類集理論的發展》,台大音樂所碩士論文,2001

 

COMMENTARIES:

Taruskin, Richard. Review of Allen Forte's Harmonic Organization of The Rite of Spring,Current Musicology 11 (1980): 114-29.

----------. "Letter to the Editor," Music Analysis 5/2-3 (1986): 313-20.

Forte, Allen. "Making Stravinsky Soup and Other Epistemusicological Pursuits: A Hymenopteran Response," Music Analysis 5/2-3 (1986): 321-37.

Walsh, Stephen. "Music Analysis: Hearing is Believing?" Music Perception 2/2: 237-44.

Haimo, Ethan. "Atonality, Analysis, and the Intentional Fallacy," Music Theory

Spectrum 18/2 (1996): 167-99.

 

Assumptions behind analysis and theory --formalism, organicism, unity, coherence, hierarchical theory, etc.

 

Kerman, ch. 3: “Analysis, Theory & New Music”

----------. "How we got into Analysis, and How to Get Out," Critical Inquiry 7 (1980): 311-31.

----------. "Analysis, Theory, and New Music," in Contemplating Music

Stock, Jonathan. “New Musicologies, Old Musicologies: Ethnomusicology and the Study of Western Music,” Current Musicology 62 (1998): 40-68.

Morgan, Robert P. “The Concept of Unity and Musical Analysis,” Music Analysis 22/1-2 (2003): 7-50.

Cross, Jonathan. “Editorial,” Music Analysis 22/1-2 (2003): 1-5.

Cherlin, Michael. "Why We Got into Analysis and What to Get out of it," Theory and Practice 11 (1986?) (review of Kerman's Contemplating Music)

Cook, ch. 6 ("What does Musical Analysis Tell Us?")

Meyer, Leonard. "On the Nature and Limits of Critical Analysis," Explaining Music, pp. 3-25

----------. "Hierarchic Structures," Explaining Music: 80-105

Cone, "Analysis Today," in Music: A View from Delft, pp. 39-54

----------. "Beyond Analysis," in Music: A View from Delft, pp. 55-76.

Lewin, David. "Behind the Beyond: A Response to Edward T. Cone," Perspectives of New Music 7/2 (1969): 59-72.

Boretz, Benjamin. "Meta-Variations: Studies in the Foundations of Musical Thought,” Ph.D. dissertation, Princeton University, 1970. Revised and serially reprinted in Perspectives of New Music, 8/1, 8/2, 9/1, 10/1, 10/2, 11/2.

Walsh, Stephen. "Musical Analysis: Hearing is Believing?" Music Perception 2/2 (1984): 237-44 (?)

Narmour, Eugene. "Some major Theoretical Problems Concerning the Concept of Hierarchy in the Analysis of Tonal Music," Music Perception 1/2 (1983-84): 129-99.

Swain, Joseph. "The Need for Limits in Hierarchical Theories of Music," Music Perception 4 (1986): 121-48

Kingsbury, Henry. "Sociological Factors in Musicological Poetics" Ethnomusicology 35/2 (1991): 195-219. [Remarks on Guck, Snarrenberg, etc.]

Street, Alan. "Superior Myths, Dogmatic Allegories: the Resistence to Music Unity," Music Analysis 8 (1989): 77-123.

Solie, Ruth A. "The Living Work: Organicism and Musical Analysis," 19th Century Music (1980): 147-56.

McCreless, Patrick. "Rethinking Contemporary Music Theory," in Keeping Score: Music, Disciplinarity, Culture. David schwarz, Anahid Kassabian and Lawrence Siegel, eds. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1997; pp.13-53.

Strauss, Joseph. Remaking the Past: Musical Modernism and the Influence of the Tonal Tradition. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1990.

Meyer, Leonard B. Style and Music: Theory, History, and Ideology. Philadelphia, 1989.

----------. "A Universe of Universals," Journal of Musicology 16/1 (1998): 3-25.

T. W. Adorno, "On the Problem of Musical Analysis," trans. by Max Paddison. Music Analysis 1/2 (1982): 169-87.

This article is reviewed in Music Theory Spectrum 6 (1984): 97-98.

Journal of Music Theory 33/1 (1989) contains a series of articles on the scientific model: Matthew Brown and Douglas J. Dempster, "The Scientific Image of Music Theory," pp. 65-106

Benjamin A. Boretz, "The Logic of What?" pp. 107-116

Nicholas Cook, "Music Theory and 'Good Comparison': A Viennese Perspective," pp. 117-42

John Rahn, "Notes on Methodology in Music Theory," pp. 143-54

Richard Taruskin, "Reply to Brown and Dempster," pp. 155-64

Pieter C. van den Toorn, "What Price Analysis?" pp. 165-90

Fink, Robert. “Going Flat: Post-Hierarchical Music Theory and the Musical Analytical Formalism,” Rethinking Music, pp. 102-37.

Williams, Alastair. “Musicology and Postmodernism,” Music Analysis 19/3 (2000): 385-407.

Korsyn, Kevin. “ Beyond Privileged Contexts: Intertextuality, Influence, and Dialogue,” Rethinking Music

 

Cultural Criticism

Kramer, Lawrence. Music as Cultural Practice 1800-1900, Berkeley, 1990.

"Impossible Objects: Apparitions, Reclining Nudes, and Chopin's prelude in A Minor," pp. 72-101

"As If a Voice Were in Them": Music, Narrative, and Deconstruction,* pp. 176-214.

----------. “Carnaval, Cross-Dressing, and the Woman in the Mirror,” in Ruth A. Solie, ed. Musicology and Difference:Gender and Sexuality in Music Scholarship (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993); pp. 305-25.

----------. Classical Music and Postmodern Knowledge. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.

"The Lied as Cultural Practice: Tutelage, Gender, and Desire in Mendelssohn’s Goethe Songs," pp. 143-73.

"Cultural Politics and Musical Form: The Case of Charles Ives," pp. 174-200.

----------. After the Lovedeath: Sexual violence and the Making of Culture. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.

Subotnik, Rose Rosengard. Developing Variations: Style and Ideology in Western Music. Minneapolis, 1991.

"Romantic Music as Post-Kantian Critique," pp. 112-40.

----------. Deconstructive Variations: Music and Reason in Western Society. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996.

Tomlingson, Gary. Music in the Renaissance Magic. Chicago: U of Chicago Press, 1993.

"Archeology and Music: Apropos of Monterverdi's Musical Magic," pp. 229-46.

Steinberg, Michael P. Listening to Reason: Culture, Subjectivity, and Nineteenth-Century Music. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2006.

Horner, Bruce. “On the Study of Music as a Material Social Practice,” Journal of Musicology 16/2 (1998): 159-99.

Shepherd, John & Peter Wicke. Music and Cultural Theory. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1997.

Johnson, Julian. Who Needs Classical Music? Cultural Choice and Musical Value. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Born, Georgina & David Hesmondhalgh; eds. Western Music and Its Others: Difference, Representation, and Appropriation in Music. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 2000.

Bellman, John, ed. The Exotic in Western Music. Boston: Northwestern University Press, 1998.

 

Feminism/Gender Studies

"Musicology" from the New Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd ed.

II-11: Gender and Sexual Studies

McClary, Susan. Feminine Endings: Music, Gender, and Sexuality. Minneapolis, 1991. (中譯本:《陰性終止:音樂學的女性主義批 評》,張馨濤譯。台北:商周出版,2003

Ch. 1: "Introduction: A Material Girl in Bluebeard's Castle," pp. 3-34.

Ch. 5: "Getting Down off the Beanstalk: The Presence of a Woman's Voice in Janika Vandervelde's Genesis II," pp. 112-31.

----------. "The Politics of Silence and Sound," Afterword to Jacques Attali, Noise: the Political Economy of Music, trans

Brian Massumi. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1985.

----------. “Narrative Agendas in ‘Absolute’ Music: Identity and Difference in Brahms’s Third Symphony,” in Ruth A. Solie, ed. Musicology and Difference: Gender and Sexuality in Music Scholarship (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993); pp. 326-44.

Shepherd, John. "Music and Male Hegemony," Music and Society, Richard Leppert and Susan McClary, ed. 1987; pp. 151-72.

----------. “Difference and Power in Music,” in Ruth A. Solie ed., Musicology and Difference: Gender and Sexuality in Music Scholarship (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993); pp. 46-65.

Rycenga, Jennifer. “Sisterhood: A Loving Lesbian Ear Listens to Progressive Heterosexual Women’s Rock Music,” in Keeping Score: Music, Disciplinarity, Culture. Ed. by David Schwarz, Anahid Kassabian, and Lawrence Siegel. Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 1997.

Citron, Marcia J. Gender and the Musical Canon Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1993.

Solie, Ruth A. "What do Feminists Want? A Reply to Pieter van den Toorn," Journal of Musicology 9/4 (1991)

----------. "Sophie Drinker's History," Disciplining Music: Musicology and its Canons, Katherine Bergeron and Philop V. Bohlman, ed. Chicago, 1992.

----------, ed. Musicology and Difference: Gender and Sexuality in Music Scholarship. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.

Van den Toorn, Pieter C. Music, Politics and the Academy. (Berkeley: UC Press, 1995),

Kramer, Lawrence. "The Lied as Cultural Practice: Tutelage, Gender, and Desire in Mendelssohn’s Goethe Songs," in Classical Music and Postmodern Knowledge, pp. 143-73.

----------. After the Lovedeath: Sexual violence and the Making of Culture. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.

Irigaray, Luce. "Cosi Fan Tutte," in her This Sex Which is Not One, Catherine Porter with Carolyn Burke, trans. (Ithaca, 1985), 86-105.

Wallace, Robin. “Myth, Gender and Musical Meaning: The Magic Flute, Beethoven, and 19th-century Sonata Form Revisited,” Journal of Musicological Research 19 (1999): 1-25.

 

Music Semiotics/Semiology

Cook, 151-82.

Dunsby and Whittall, Part IV (pp. 209-32)

Nattiez, Jean Jacques. "Varese's 'Density 21.5': a Study in Semiological Analysis,” Anna Barry, trans. Music Analysis 1/3 (1982): 244-340.

----------. Music and Discourse: Toward a Semiology of Music. Translation and abridgment of Musicologie generale et semiologie (Paris, 1987). Carolyn Abbate trans. Princeton, 1990.

----------. "Simha Arom and the Return of Analysis to Ethnomusicology," Music Analysis 12/2 (1993): 241-65.

Cook, Nicholas. “Theorizing Musical Meaning,” Music Theory Spectrum 23/2 (2001): 170-95.

Blacking, John. “The Problem of ‘Ethnic’ Perceptions in the Semiotics of Music,” in The Sign in Music and Literature, ed. Wendy Steiner. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1981; pp. 184-94.

Keiler, Allan. “Two Views of Musical Semiotics,” in The Sign in Music and Literature; pp. 138-68.

Rouwet, Nicholas. “Methods of Analysis in Musicology,” Music Analysis 6/1-2 (1987): 11-36.

Dunsby, Jonathan. "Music and Semiotics: The Nattiez Phase," The Musical Quarterly 69 (1983), pp. 27-43.

Agawu, Kofi. Playing with Signs: A Semiotic Interpretation of Classic Music. Princeton, 1991.

----------. "Analyzing Music Under the New Musicological Regime," MTO 96.5.1.

Hatten, Robert. "Nattiez's Semiology of Music: Flaws in the New Science" (Review Article of Natteiz's Fondements d'une semiologie de la musique), Semiotica 31/1-2 (1980): 139-55.

----------. "Review of Agawu's Playing with Signs and Nattiez's Music and Discourse ," Music Theory Spectrum 14/1 (1992): 88-98.

----------. Musical Meaning in Beethoven: Markedness, Correlation, and Interpretation. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994.

Monelle, Raymond. Linguistics and Semiotics in Music. Chur, Switzerland ; Philadelphia : Harwood Academic, 1992. (ML3838 M69 1992)

Samuels, Robert. Mahler's Sixth Symphony : a study in musical semiotics. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1995 (MT130.M25 S2 1995)

Steiner, Wendy. The Sign in Music and Literature. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1981.

Tarasti, Eero. Myth and Music : a Semiotic Approach to the Aesthetics of Myth in music, especially that of Wagner, Sibelius and Stravinsky. The Hague, [Noordeinde 41] : Mouton, 1979. (ML3849 T37)

----------. A theory of musical semiotics. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1994 (ML3845 T35)

Tarasti, Eero, Paul Forsell, Richard Littlefield, eds. Musical Semiotics in Growth. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1996. (ML3845 M9755 1996)

Turino, Thomas. “Signs of Imagination, Identity, and Experience: A Peircian Semiotic Theory for Music,” Ethnomusicology 43/2 (1999): 221-55.

 

Implication/Realization Model

Cook, pp. 70-89.

Meyer, Leonard B. "Meaning in Music and Information Theory," in Music, the Arts, and Ideas: Patterns and Predictions in Twentieth-Century Culture (Chicago, 1967): 5-21.

----------. Explaining Music: Essays and Explorations (Chicago, 1973).

"Implication in Tonal Melody: Definitions and Methodology," pp. 109-31. (ch. 6)

"Melodic Structures," pp. 131-74.

"A Summary Example," pp. 242-68.

Narmour, Eugene. The Analysis and Cognition of Basic Melodic Structures: the Implication-Realization Model. (Chicago, 1990).

----------. Analysis and Cognition of Melodic Complexity: the Implication-Realization Model. (Chicago, 1992).

 

Music Psychology, Perception & Cognition

"Musicology" from the New Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd ed.

II-10: Psychology, Hearing

Cook, A Guide to Musical Analysis

Ch. 3: Psychological Approaches to Analysis, pp. 67-115.

Cone, "Three Ways of Reading a Detective Story," Music: A View from Delft

Lewin, David. "Music Theory, Phenomenology, and Modes of Perception," Music Perception 3/4 (1986)

Lerdahl, Fred & Ray Jackendorff. A Generative Theory of Tonal Music. Cambridge, MA, 1983.

Rosner, Burton S. "Music Perception, Music Theory, and Psychology," Explorations in Music: the Arts and Ideas: Essays in Honor of Leonard B. Meyer. Pendragon, 1988; pp. 141-75.

Seashore, Carl E. Psychology of Music (1938). New York: Dover, 1967.

Meyer, Leonard. Emotion and Meaning in Music. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1956. Read esp. pp. 22-39, 86-97. (中譯本:《音樂的情感與意義》,何乾三譯。 北京:北京大學出版社,1991

Deutch, Diana, ed. The Psychology of Music, 2nd ed. San Diego, London & New York: Academic Press, 1999.

Deutch, Diana. “The Processing of Pitch Combinations,” in Diana Deutch ed. The Psychology of Music, 2nd ed., pp. 349-411.

Dowling, W. Jay. “The Development of Music Perception and Cognition,” in Diana Deutch ed. The Psychology of Music, 2nd ed. pp. 603-25.

Carterette, Edward C. & Roger A. Kendall. “Comparative Music Perception and Cognition,” in Diana Deutch ed. The Psychology of Music, 2nd ed., pp. 725-91.

Sloboda, John A. The Musical Mind: the Cognitive Psychology of Music. Oxford, 1988. (ML 3830. S 53. 1985)

Butler, David. The Musician’s Guide to Perception and Cognition. New York: Schirmer, 1992.

Balkwill, Laura-Lee & William Forde Thompson. “A Cross-Cultural Investigation of the Perception of Emotion in Music: Psychophysical and Cultural Cues,” Music Perception 17/1 (1999): 43-64.

Schwarz, David. Listening Subjects: Music, Psychoanalysis, Culture. London: Duke University Press, 1997.

Hargreaves, David J. & Adrian C. North, eds. The Social Psychology of Music Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.

 

Modes of Listening and Perception

Cook, Nicholas. Music, Imagination & Culture. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990.

Levinson, Jerold. Music in the Moment. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997.

Stockfelt, Ola. "Adequate Modes of Listening," trans. by Anahid Kassabian and Leo G. Svendsen;in Keeping Score: Music, Disciplinarity, Culture. David schwarz, Anahid Kassabian & Lawrence Siegel, eds. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1997; pp. 129-46.

DeBellis, Mark. Music and Conceptualization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

 

Musical Narrativity

Guck, Marion A. "Musical Images as Musical Thoughts: The Contribution of Metaphor to Analysis," In Theory Only 5 (1979-81): 23-46.

----------. "Analytical Fictions" Music Theory Spectrum 16/2 (1994): 211-89.

----------. "Rehabilitating the Incorrigible." In Theory, Analysis and Meaning, Anthony Pople, ed. Cambridge, 1994.

----------. "Music Loving, Or the Relationship with the Piece," MTO 96.2.2.

Maus, Fred Everett. "Music as Drama," Music Theory Spectrum 10 (1988): 56-73.

Abbate, Carolyn. Unsung Voices: Opera and Musical Narrative in the Nineteenth Century. Princeton UP, 1991.

Klein, Michael. “Chopin’s Fourth Ballade as Musical Narrative,” Music Theory Spectrum 26/1 (2004)

 

Other Analytical Approaches

Tovey, Donald Francis. (see Cook, Dunsby & Whittall)

Lerdahl, Fred and Ray Jackendoff. A Generative Theory of Music

Patricia Carpenter "Grundgestalt as Tonal Function," Music Theory Spectrum 5 (1983):

Cogan, Robert. New Images of Musical Sound. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1984.

Clifton, Thomas. Music as Heard, pp. 50-136

Ferrara, Lawrence. "Phenomenology as a Tool for Musical Analysis," Musical Quarterly 70 (1984): 355-73.

Cogan, Robert & Pozzi Escot. Sonic Design: The Nature of Sound and Music. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1976.

Slawson, Wayne. Sound Color. Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1985.

 

Canon Study

Weber, William. The Rise of Musical Classics in 18th-century England: a Study in Canon, Ritual, and Ideology Oxford UP, 1992.

Morgan, Robert. “Rethinking Musical Culture: Canonic Reformulations in a Post-Tonal Age,” in Disciplining Music: Musicology and Its Canons, eds. K. Bergeron & P. Bohlman, U of Chicago Press, 1992; pp. 44-63.

Everist, Mark. “Reception Theories, Canonic Discourses, and Musical Value,” in Nicholas Cook & Everist, eds. Rethinking Music, pp. 378-402.

Citron, Marcia J. Gender and the Musical Canon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Ch. 1: "Canonic Issues," pp. 1-14.

Bergeron, Katherine and Philip V. Bohlman, ed. Disciplining Music: Musicology and its Canons. Chicago, 1992.

pp. 44-63: Robert P. Morgan, "Rethinking Musical Culture: Canonic Reformulations in a Post-Tonal Age."

Dunsby, Jonathan. "Criteria of Correctness in Music Theory and Analysis," in Anthony Pople ed., Theory, Analysis and Meaning in Music, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; pp. 77-85.

Susan McClary, "Terminal Prestige: The Case of Avant-Garde Music Composition," in Keeping Score (1997), pp. 54-74.

[canon, pop music]

Kerman, "American Musicology in the 1990s"

Meyer, Leonard. Music, The Arts, and Ideas, ch. 1 & 2.

 

Aesthetics; Philosophy of Music

"Musicology" from the New Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd ed.

II-8: Aesthetics and Criticism

Kivy, Peter. Sound and Sentiment: An Essay on the Musical Emotions. Philadelphia, 1989.

----------. Sound and Semblence: Reflections on Musical Representation. Ithaca, 1991.

----------. Music Alone: Philosophical Reflections on the Purely Musical Experience. Ithaca, 1990.

Levinson, Jerold. The Pleasures of Aesthetics: Philosophical Essays. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996.

----------. Music, Art, and Metaphysics: Essays in Philosophical Aesthetics.

----------. Music in the MomentI. (1997)

Cook, Nicholas. Music, Imagination and Culture

Roger Scruton, Aesthetics of Music, Oxford UP, 1997. (ML 3845. S 3975. 1997) ch. 12: " Value," pp. 369-91

Davies, Stephen. Musical Meaning and Expression. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994.

Michael Krausz, The Interpretation of Music: Philosophical Essays. New York: Oxford UP, 1993.

Meyer, Leonard B. Emotion and Meaning in Music.

----------, Music, The Arts, and Ideas, ch. 1 & 2

Lydia Goehr. The Imaginary Museum of Musical Works: An Essay in the Philosophy of Music. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992.

----------. The Quest for Voice: Music, Politics, and the Limits of Philosophy. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998.

Addis, Laird. Of Mind and Music. Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press, 1999.

Johnson, Julian. Who Needs Classical Music? Cultural Choice and Musical Value. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

 

Pop /Film Music study

Bernard, Jonathan W. “The Musical World(s?) of Frank Zappa: Some Observations of His ‘Crossover’ Pieces,” in Expresion in Pop-Rock Music: A Collection of Critical and Analytical Essays. Walter Everett, ed. New York: Garland Publishing, 2000.

Borders, James. “Frank Zappa’s ‘The Black Page’: A case of Musical ‘Conceptual Continuity’,” in Expression in Pop-Rock Music: A Collection of Critical and Analytical Essays. Walter Everett, ed. New York: Garland Publishing, 2000.

Brackett, David. Interpreting Popular Music. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Corbett, John. “Free, Single, and Disengaged: Listening Pleasure and the Popular Music Object,” October 54 (1990): 78-101.

Covach, John. "We Won't Get Fooled Again: Rock Music and Musical Analysis," in Keeping Score (1997), pp. 75-89.

Covach, John. “Jazz-Rock? Rock-Jazz? Stylistic Crossover in Late-1970s American Progressive Rock,” in Expresion in Pop-Rock Music: A Collection of Critical and Analytical Essays. Walter Everett, ed. New York: Garland Publishing, 2000.

Everett, Walter, ed. Expression in pop-rock music : a collection of critical and analytical essays.

New York : Garland, 20. Krims, Adam, ed. Rap Music and the Poetics of Identity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

McClary, Susan. “Living to Tell: Madonna’s Resurrection of the Fleshly,” in Feminine Endings, pp. 148-168.

Middleton, Richard. Reading Pop: Approaches to Textual Analysis in Popular Music. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

----------. “Play It Again, Sam: Some Notes on the Productivity of Repetition in Popular Music,” Popular Music 3 (1983): 235-70.

Negus, Keith. Popular Music in Theory: An Introduction. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 1996.

Rycenga, Jennifer. “Sisterhood: A Loving Lesbian Ear Listens to Progressive Heterosexual Women’s Rock Music,” in Keeping Score: Music, Disciplinarity, Culture. Ed. by David Schwarz, Anahid Kassabian, and Lawrence Siegel. Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 1997.

Shepherd, John. “A theoretical Model for the Sociomusicological Analysis of Popular Musics,” Popular Music 2 (1982): 145-77.

Walser, Robert. “’Out of Notes’: Signification, Interpretation, and the Problem of Miles Davis,” in Keeping Score: Music, Disciplinarity, Culture. Ed. by David Schwarz, Anahid Kassabian, and Lawrence Siegel. Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 1997.

Abbate, Carolyn. “Opera; or, the Envoicing of Women,” in Musicology and Difference: Gender and Sexuality in Music Scholarship. Ruth A. Solie, ed. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1993. (pp. 225-58.)

Goodwin, Andrew. “Popular Music and Postmodern Theory,” Culture Studies 5/2 (1991): 174-90.

Manuel, Peter. “Music as Symbol, Music as Simulacrum: Postmodern, Premodern, and Modern Aesthetics in Subcultural Popular Musics,” Popular Music 14/2 (1995): 227-39.

Stratton, Jon. “Beyond Art: Postmodernism and the Case of Popular Music,” Theory, Culture & Society 6 (1989): 31-57.

Kassabian, Anabid. “At the Twilight’s Last Scoring,” in Keeping Score: Music, Disciplinarity, Culture. Ed. by David Schwarz, Anahid Kassabian, and Lawrence Siegel. Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 1997.

Brown, Royal S. Overtones and Undertones: Reading Film Music. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.

Frith, Simon, Andrew Goodwin & Lawrence Grossberg, eds. Sound and Vision: The Music Video Reader. London: Routledge, 1993.

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