Grundlagentexte der Musikwissenschaft

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Instrumentation Literature
Editor Melanie Wald-Fuhrmann Annette van Dyck-Hemming
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Publisher Bärenreiter Verlag
Order no. BVK2441

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Description:

Language: German
Pages: 662
Release: 21.01.2026
Dimensions: 245 x 185 mm
Weight: 1279 g
ISBN: 9783761824412

Guido Adler's essay "Scope, Method and Goal of Musicology" from 1885 is probably the most influential founding document of the university discipline of musicology. But even before and especially after Adler, representatives of the discipline have constantly rethought what musicology can and should be, how it relates to musical production and how it should relate to social and political demands.

This volume contains over 50 such fundamental conceptions of musicology and its subfields by German-speaking authors since 1777.

These texts are reprinted here (partly in excerpts) and accompanied by a commentary that opens up the text against the background of the history of the discipline and contemporary history. In this way, the reflection of musicology on itself becomes comprehensible. However, the various motivations for changes in content or methodology and the examination of the questions and challenges of the respective present also become recognizable.

The volume is therefore suitable for students of musicology and related cultural studies and humanities as well as for practicing musicologists and people interested in aspects of university and academic history. The texts were selected in conjunction with renowned experts in musicology: Barbara Boisits (Austrian musicology), Veronika Busch (systematic musicology), Wolfgang Fuhrmann (music sociology), Ulrich Konrad (19th century German musicology), Julio Mendívil (ethnomusicology), Pamela Potter (National Socialist musicology), Matthias Tischer (musicology in the GDR) and Melanie Unseld (musicological gender studies).