Musicians use a broad spectrum of practices to make new music out of old: performance,
including everything from making performing choices to improvising variants or added …

Musicologists have studied musical borrowings for over a century, writing on every aspect
from cantus firmus and variation to less overt procedures such as allusion and structural …

It was in 1995 that Scott Burnham showed how far the 'Beethoven Hero'paradigm had set
the agenda for subsequent musicological and theoretical thinking about the classical …

[1] Archival research in music has undergone dramatic transformations in recent years. Far
from a rigid and antiqued discipline, exclusively immersed in dusty manuscripts of canonic …

Stanley Cavell's 1967 essay “Music Discomposed” claims that twentieth-century musical
modernism incorporates the constant possibility of “fraudulence,” thus provoking the …

The Pop Palimpsest: Intertextuality in Recorded Popular Music is the latest in University of
Michigan Press's rich and expanding Tracking Pop series. Edited by Lori Burns and Serge …

If I look back on the work that has been done over the last 15 years or so, what strikes me is
the extent and variety of the developments-theoretical, methodological, or epistemological …

In the first half of the twentieth century, musical life was dominated to an unprecedented
degree by the music of the past. Partly as a consequence, musical compositions in that …

This book studies recent music in the western classical tradition, offering a critique of current
analytical/theoretical approaches and proposing alternatives. The critique addresses the …

In recent decades, increased specialization has sharply separated music theory from
historical musicology. Music Theory and the Exploration of the Past brings together a group …