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The Routledge Companion to Applied Musicology brings together academics, artist-researchers, and practitioners to provide readers with an extensive and authoritative overview of applied musicology.

Once a field that addressed music's socio-political or performative contexts, applied musicology today encompasses study and practice in areas as diverse as psychology, ecomusicology, organology, forensic musicology, music therapy, health and well-being, and other public-oriented musicologies. These rapid advances have created a fast-changing field whose scholarship and activities tend to take place in isolation from each other. This volume addresses that shortcoming, bringing together a wide-ranging survey of current approaches.

Featuring 39 authors, The Routledge Companion to Applied Musicology falls into five partsDefining and Theorising Applied Musicology; Public Engagement; New Approaches and Research Methods; Representation and Inclusion; and Musicology in/

Table of Contents

List of Figures

List of Contributors

Introduction Chris Dromey

Part I. Defining and Theorising Applied Musicology

1. From Spitta to Seeger: Early Theories of Applied Musicology Malik Sharif

2. Musicology’s Applied Foundations (or, How Music was Musealised) Miloš Zapletal and

Chris Dromey

3. The Late Nineteenth-Century Concert as Applied Musicology Natasha Loges

4. “Applied” before Musicology? George Grove, Programme Notes, and the Dictionary

Bruno Bower

5. Phenomenology, Practice-led Research, and Applied Musicology Nancy November

6. The Locations of Musical Meaning and Subjectivity Alastair Williams

Part II. Public Engagement

7. Shaping the Narrative: Musicology for a Public Leah Broad

8. Exhibiting Ethnomusicology: Curation Across Cultures and Disciplines Frances Wilkins,

Barbara Alge and the Aanischaaukamikw Cree Cultural Institute

9. Club Inégales, Curation, and Processes of Public Musicology Helen Julia Minors

10. Cultural and Artistic Citizenship in Classical Music Constanze Wimmer and Chris

Dromey

11. Musicology and/as Knowledge Exchange Toby Young

12. ‘So wide is the field’: Edward Taylor’s Public Music Lectures Rachel Johnson

Part III. New Approaches and Research Methods

13. The Sound Commons and Applied Ecomusicologies Aaron S. Allen, Taylor Leapaldt,

Mark Pedelty and Jeff Todd Titon

14. Perceptions of Melodic Symmetry: A Priming Study Michael Thorpe

15. Opera Virgins at the Movies: Audience Research and the Ontology of Opera Cinema

Joe Attard

16. Towards an Applied Health Musicology: Aesthetic Music Therapy and Beyond Colin

Andrew Lee and Chris Dromey

17. “Parental Advisory”: Making Explicit the Value and Authenticity of a Music Degree

Paul Fleet

Part IV. Representation and Inclusion

18. Rethinking Representation in Music Education: Strategies to Integrate Pan-African Music

Karen Cyrus

19. Whose ‘Better World’? Reflections on Applied Music Interventions in the Andes

Xabier Etxeberria Adrien and Henry Stobart

20. Rethinking (Self-)Care in Musicology Klisala Harrison

21. The Legality and Morality of Rap at Court Lily E. Hirsch

22. Strategies for Using Music Theory to Inform Music Education, Psychology, and

Therapy Research Adam Ockelford

Part V. Musicology in/for Performance

23. “Mahler am Tisch”: Experimenting with Imagined and Emergent Audiences Ties van de

Werff, Veerle Spronck and Imogen Eve

24. On Organology: Taxonomy and Transdisciplinarity Rachael Durkin and Darryl Martin

25. Dialogues with Recordings: Digital Memory and the Archive Neil Heyde

26. Intersections Between Northern Irish Choral Practices and Community Music Principles

Sarah-Jane Gibson and Lee Higgins

27. Music for Buildings, Building for Music Neil Thomas Smith and Peter Peters

References

Index

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      Publication Date: 9/19/2023 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780367488246, 978-0367488246
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      The Routledge Companion to Applied Musicology brings together academics, artist-researchers, and practitioners to provide readers with an extensive and authoritative overview of applied musicology.

      Once a field that addressed music's socio-political or performative contexts, applied musicology today encompasses study and practice in areas as diverse as psychology, ecomusicology, organology, forensic musicology, music therapy, health and well-being, and other public-oriented musicologies. These rapid advances have created a fast-changing field whose scholarship and activities tend to take place in isolation from each other. This volume addresses that shortcoming, bringing together a wide-ranging survey of current approaches.

      Featuring 39 authors, The Routledge Companion to Applied Musicology falls into five partsDefining and Theorising Applied Musicology; Public Engagement; New Approaches and Research Methods; Representation and Inclusion; and Musicology in/

      Table of Contents

      List of Figures

      List of Contributors

      Introduction Chris Dromey

      Part I. Defining and Theorising Applied Musicology

      1. From Spitta to Seeger: Early Theories of Applied Musicology Malik Sharif

      2. Musicology’s Applied Foundations (or, How Music was Musealised) Miloš Zapletal and

      Chris Dromey

      3. The Late Nineteenth-Century Concert as Applied Musicology Natasha Loges

      4. “Applied” before Musicology? George Grove, Programme Notes, and the Dictionary

      Bruno Bower

      5. Phenomenology, Practice-led Research, and Applied Musicology Nancy November

      6. The Locations of Musical Meaning and Subjectivity Alastair Williams

      Part II. Public Engagement

      7. Shaping the Narrative: Musicology for a Public Leah Broad

      8. Exhibiting Ethnomusicology: Curation Across Cultures and Disciplines Frances Wilkins,

      Barbara Alge and the Aanischaaukamikw Cree Cultural Institute

      9. Club Inégales, Curation, and Processes of Public Musicology Helen Julia Minors

      10. Cultural and Artistic Citizenship in Classical Music Constanze Wimmer and Chris

      Dromey

      11. Musicology and/as Knowledge Exchange Toby Young

      12. ‘So wide is the field’: Edward Taylor’s Public Music Lectures Rachel Johnson

      Part III. New Approaches and Research Methods

      13. The Sound Commons and Applied Ecomusicologies Aaron S. Allen, Taylor Leapaldt,

      Mark Pedelty and Jeff Todd Titon

      14. Perceptions of Melodic Symmetry: A Priming Study Michael Thorpe

      15. Opera Virgins at the Movies: Audience Research and the Ontology of Opera Cinema

      Joe Attard

      16. Towards an Applied Health Musicology: Aesthetic Music Therapy and Beyond Colin

      Andrew Lee and Chris Dromey

      17. “Parental Advisory”: Making Explicit the Value and Authenticity of a Music Degree

      Paul Fleet

      Part IV. Representation and Inclusion

      18. Rethinking Representation in Music Education: Strategies to Integrate Pan-African Music

      Karen Cyrus

      19. Whose ‘Better World’? Reflections on Applied Music Interventions in the Andes

      Xabier Etxeberria Adrien and Henry Stobart

      20. Rethinking (Self-)Care in Musicology Klisala Harrison

      21. The Legality and Morality of Rap at Court Lily E. Hirsch

      22. Strategies for Using Music Theory to Inform Music Education, Psychology, and

      Therapy Research Adam Ockelford

      Part V. Musicology in/for Performance

      23. “Mahler am Tisch”: Experimenting with Imagined and Emergent Audiences Ties van de

      Werff, Veerle Spronck and Imogen Eve

      24. On Organology: Taxonomy and Transdisciplinarity Rachael Durkin and Darryl Martin

      25. Dialogues with Recordings: Digital Memory and the Archive Neil Heyde

      26. Intersections Between Northern Irish Choral Practices and Community Music Principles

      Sarah-Jane Gibson and Lee Higgins

      27. Music for Buildings, Building for Music Neil Thomas Smith and Peter Peters

      References

      Index

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