Music And Historical Critique: Selected Essays

Description:
'Music and Historical Critique' provides a definitive collection of Gary Tomlinson's influential studies on critical musicology, with the watchword throughout being history. This collection gathers his most innovative essays and lectures, some of them published here for the first time, along with an introduction outlining the context of the contributions and commenting on their aims and significance. 'Music and Historical Critique' provides a retrospective view of the author's achievements in bringing to the heart of musicological discourse both deep-seated experiences of the past and meditations on the historian's ways of understanding them.

Table of Contents:
Introduction; List of published writings; The web of culture: a context for musicology; Music and the claims of text: Monteverdi, Rinuccini and Marino; Opera and drame; Hugo, Donizetti and Verdi; Italian romanticism and Italian opera: an essay in their affinities; Pastoral and musical magic in the birth of opera; Musical pasts and postmodern musicologies: A Response to Lawrence Kramer and Tomlinson Responds; Giaches de Wert and the discourse of Petrarchism; Cultural dialogics and jazz: a white historian signifies; Unlearning the Aztec cantares (preliminaries to a postcolonial history); Finding ground to stand on; Self, other, and the emergence of musical modernity; Vico's songs: detours at the origins of (ethno)musicology; Ghosts in the machine; Hamlet and Poppea; Learning to curse at 67; Musicology, anthropology, history; 5 pictures of pathos; Il faut mediterraniser la musique: after Braudel; Index.

Author Biography:
Gary Tomlinson is Annenberg Professor in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. He is a specialist in music of the late Renaissance and early Baroque, opera, music and cross-cultural contact, and cultural history and historiography. He was awarded the Alfred Einstein prize of the American Musicological Society in 1982.