Musicologists have traditionally treated music notation as a representation of musical
'works'. In the performative turn, conversely, it was argued that the score is not the music …

The ubiquity and diversity of notational practices in music suggest that notation is a
significant part of human beings' musicking behaviour. However, it is difficult to address its …

The extremes of the debate on the relation of music to society today are familiar enough. 1
On the one hand there is the argument found in certain areas of aesthetics and musicology …

This introduction outlines the aims and themes of this volume. We discuss the central
position of notation in the foundations of music scholarship as well as the various moves …

Musics, Cultures and Meanings: Music as Communication Page 1 Empirical Musicology Review
Vol. 7, No. 1-2, 2012 95 Musics, Cultures and Meanings: Music as Communication IAN CROSS …

Music and Material Culture provides a new platform for methodological innovations in
research on the relationship between music and its objects. In a sense, musicology has …

In this article, I theorize a new conception of musical meaning, based on JL Austin's theory of
performative utterances in his treatise How to Do Things with Words. Austin theorizes …

Musicology's performative turn was formulated in opposition to the disciplinary dominance of
music notation in favour of a focus on the creativity of performers. However, scores are a …

This chapter shows how efforts to standardise postwar notation, promoted by the Index of
New Musical Notation (1970–1974, New York), share basic assumptions with Hegel's and …

Musicology in the Garden Page 1 EMILY I. DOLAN Musicology in the Garden IN HIS 1885
ESSAY ‘‘Scope, Method, and Aim of Musicology,’’ which inaugurated the journal …