A distinct if diverse musical research area has begun to emerge in recent years. While there
is enough common ground to define it as a research field, its objects and themes are not yet …

What would contemporary music scholarship look like if it was no longer imprinted with the
disciplinary assumptions, boundaries and divisions inherited from the last century? This …

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 …

This essay explores how musical instrument makers relate to their primary materials and, in
turn, how musical instruments connect music, nature, and society in particular cultural …

Popular music studies has rarely exhibited the kinds of disciplinary coherence found in
closely related disciplines mostly due to the field's adoption and adaptation of …

In contradistinction to common adages proclaiming music's inability to represent anything
other than itself, there are remarkably complex ways in which identities—both embedded …

This collection of essays explores a wide range of topics current in the field of music theory,
including analytical methodologies for pretonal, tonal, and post-tonal music, assessment of …

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 …

Unter dem Begriff „kulturelle Musikwissenschaft “versammeln sich seit über einem halben
Jahrhundert eine Reihe musikwissenschaftlicher Visionen, die alle ein gemeinsames Ziel …

Artistic research in music is now at a generational stage of development. How should it deal
with its own maturing? From a kaleidoscope of individual pursuits, ethos and methodologies …