In search of methods that provide common theoretical ground for the different disciplines of
music scholarship, I explore the ways in which studying music in the present opens …

LATELY, ACROSS THE HUMANITIES, HISTORICISM in its many guises has been in retreat—
a retreat that music studies has in some respects hastened. This collection of essays asks …

From our first social bonding as infants to the funeral rites that mark our passing, music plays
an important role in our lives, bringing us closer to one another. In The Music between Us …

The conversations generated by the chapters in Music's Immanent Future grapple with some
of music's paradoxes: that music of the Western art canon is viewed as timeless and …

Philip Bohlman brings this volume to a close with Chapter 15, with an original discourse
across disciplines and around the multifaceted figure of Johann Gottfried Herder, himself a …

With the decline in currency of the postmodern, art music culture of the early twenty-first
century seems to have few values left to assert apart from its contemporaneity, its sheer …

Focusing on a selection of musical works from within three genres–symphony, string quartet,
and the piano repertoire–I argue that the experience of music from the late 20th and early …

The last 20 years have seen concerted efforts to shift the object of musicological study from
scores to performances and sound recordings have played a huge part in fostering a sub …

In Music in the Mirror, thirteen distinguished scholars explore the concept of music, music
theory, and music literature as mirror images of one another? whether real or distorted …

What, exactly, is knowledge of music? And what does it tell us about humanistic knowledge
in general? The Thought of Music grapples directly with these fundamental questions …