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Table of Contents
Introduction
1. The History of What?
2. Did Somebody Say Censorship?
3. Haydn and the Enlightenment?
4. Is There a Baby in the Bathwater? On aesthetic autonomy
5. Shall We Change the Subject? A Music Historian Reflects
6. “Alte Musik” or “Early Music”? On pseudohistory
7. Nicht blutbefleckt?
8. What Else? On musical representation
9. Unanalyzable, Is It?
10. Essence or Context? On musical ontology
11. But Aren’t They All Invented? On tradition
12. Which Way Is Up? On the sociology of taste
13. A Walking Translation? On musicology east and west

Index

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      Publisher: University of California Press
      Publication Date: 21/04/2020
      ISBN13: 9780520344297, 978-0520344297
      ISBN10: 0520344294
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      Music Theory of music and musicology

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Table of Contents
      Introduction
      1. The History of What?
      2. Did Somebody Say Censorship?
      3. Haydn and the Enlightenment?
      4. Is There a Baby in the Bathwater? On aesthetic autonomy
      5. Shall We Change the Subject? A Music Historian Reflects
      6. “Alte Musik” or “Early Music”? On pseudohistory
      7. Nicht blutbefleckt?
      8. What Else? On musical representation
      9. Unanalyzable, Is It?
      10. Essence or Context? On musical ontology
      11. But Aren’t They All Invented? On tradition
      12. Which Way Is Up? On the sociology of taste
      13. A Walking Translation? On musicology east and west

      Index

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