{"product_id":"contemplating-music-joseph-kerman-9780674166783","title":"Contemplating Music: Challenges to Musicology","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith this book, Joseph Kerman establishes the place of music study firmly in the mainstream of modern intellectual history. He treats not only the study of the history of Western art music--with which musicology is traditionally equated--but also sometimes vexed relations between music history and other fields: music theory and analysis, ethnomusicology, and music criticism. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKerman sees and applauds a change in the study of music toward a critical orientation. As examples, he presents fascinating vignettes of Bach research in the 1950s and Beethoven studies in the 1960s. He sketches the work of prominent scholars and theorists: Thurston Dart, Charles Rosen, Leonard B. Meyer, Heinrich Schenker, Milton Babbit, and many others. And he comments on such various subjects as the amazing absorption of Stephen Foster's songs into the canons of \"black\" music, the new intensity of Verdi research, controversies about performance on historical instruments, and the merits and demerits of \u003ci\u003eThe New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eContemplating Music\u003c\/i\u003e is filled with wisdom and trenchant commentary. It will spark controversy among musicologists of all stripes and will give many musicians and amateurs an entirely new perspective on the world of music.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joseph Kerman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0674166787\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674166783\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/15\/1986\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.78lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.98h x 6.13w x 0.57d","brand":"Joseph Kerman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43992269127935,"sku":"9780674166783","price":39.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e4178438-f7ea-4d1f-8746-ecc8391debe8.jpg?v=1683315067","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/contemplating-music-joseph-kerman-9780674166783","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}