The historiography of music in global perspective / edited by Sam Mirelman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mirelman, Sam, editor.

Series:

Gorgias précis portfolios ; 9.

Gorgias Précis Portfolio ; 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music archaeology--Congresses.

Music archaeology.

Music--Historiography--Congresses.

Music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (216 p.)

Place of Publication:

Piscataway, New Jersey : Gorgias Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume examines the perception of music's past, in all its historical, geographical and cultural breadth. The wide-ranging collection of papers address the interpretation of past music cultures from the earliest records of antiquity until the present.

Contents:

""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Remembering Music in Early Greece by John C. Franklin""; ""Interpreting Non-European Perceptions and Representations of Early modern European Music by David R. M. Irving""; ""From Music Archaeology to Historiography: Andean Music Archaeology and Musical Instruments, Singing and Dancing in Guaman Poma's ""Nueva Cronica y Bien Gobierno"" by Ellen Hickmann""; ""Music-Archaeological Research on Pre-Columbian Music Cultures, 1880-1920 by Arnd Adje Both""

""Antiquarians, Archaeologists and Music in Nineteenth Century London: Early Conversations in Music's Prehistory by Graeme Lawson""""The False Decipherment of Cuneiform 'Notation' in the Early Twentieth Century by Sam Mirelman""; ""Studies of Ancient Nordic Music, 1915-1940 by Gjermund Kolltveit""; ""Music Archaeology in Scandinavia, 1800-1990 by Cajsa S. Lund""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 15, 2015).

ISBN:

1-4632-0473-6