Rethinking Music

Academic Musical Studies Have Gone Through a Period of Rapid Change in the Late-20Th Century; the Musicological Agenda Has Been Expanded to Include a Broad Range of Sociological and Ideological Issues, While the Very Status of Music Theory (With Its Apparent Dependence on the Autonomous Musical Work) Has Been Thrown Into Doubt. the Time is Ripe for a Comprehensive Re-Evaluation of Our Thinking About Music in the Light of Such Recent Developments. This Volume is in Two Parts. the First Focuses on Approaches to Musical Texts, Covering Such Topics As the Relationship of Text and Context, Concepts of Unity and Meaning in Music, and the Role of Empirical Approaches, Together With Compositional and Performance Perspectives. Underlying the Volume As a Whole is the Question of How Far, and in What Ways, Music Theory Can Remain Viable and Valuable in a Changing Intellectual Evironment. the Second Section Sets Out to Reflect the Nature of the Discipline of Musicology, and the Ways in Which It Ha