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The historiography of music in global perspective / edited by Sam Mirelman.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Gorgias prâecis portfolios ; 9.Publisher: Piscataway, New Jersey : Gorgias Press, 2010Copyright date: ©2010Description: 1 online resource (viii, 207 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781463204730
  • 1463204736
  • 9781463222536
  • 146322253X
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Historiography of music in global perspective.DDC classification:
  • 780.9 23
Other classification:
  • 9,2
Online resources:
Contents:
Remembering music in early Greece / John C. Franklin -- Interpreting non-European perceptions and representations of early modern European music / David R.M. Irving -- From music archaeology to historiography : Andean music archaeology and musical instruments, singing and dancing in Guaman Poma's Nuâeva crâonica y bien gobierno / Ellen Hickmann -- Music-archaeological research on pre-Columbian music cultures, 1880-1920 / Arnd Adje Both -- Antiquarians, archaeologists and music in nineteenth century London : early conversations in music's prehistory / Graeme Lawson -- The false decipherment of cuneiform 'notation' in the early twentieth century / Sam Mirelman -- Studies of ancient Nordic music, 1915-1940 / Gjermund Kolltveit -- Music archaeology in Scandinavia, 1800-1990 / Cajsa S. Lund.
Summary: This volume examines the perception of music's past, in all its historical, geographical and cultural breadth. The wide-ranging collection of papers address the interpretation of past music cultures from the earliest records of antiquity until the present.
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Remembering music in early Greece / John C. Franklin -- Interpreting non-European perceptions and representations of early modern European music / David R.M. Irving -- From music archaeology to historiography : Andean music archaeology and musical instruments, singing and dancing in Guaman Poma's Nuâeva crâonica y bien gobierno / Ellen Hickmann -- Music-archaeological research on pre-Columbian music cultures, 1880-1920 / Arnd Adje Both -- Antiquarians, archaeologists and music in nineteenth century London : early conversations in music's prehistory / Graeme Lawson -- The false decipherment of cuneiform 'notation' in the early twentieth century / Sam Mirelman -- Studies of ancient Nordic music, 1915-1940 / Gjermund Kolltveit -- Music archaeology in Scandinavia, 1800-1990 / Cajsa S. Lund.

This volume examines the perception of music's past, in all its historical, geographical and cultural breadth. The wide-ranging collection of papers address the interpretation of past music cultures from the earliest records of antiquity until the present.

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