Music in the Mirror
Reflections on the History of Music Theory and Literature for the Twenty-First Century
University of Nebraska Press
Published on 14. July 2003
Book
Hardback
333 pages
978-0-8032-3219-8 (ISBN)
Description
In Music in the Mirror, thirteen distinguished scholars explore the concept of music, music theory, and music literature as mirror images of one another-whether real or distorted. Encompassing the history of music and music theory and literature from the Middle Ages to the present, these essays, in their reconsideration of the relationships among music, theory, and literature, offer new approaches and articulate compelling visions for future research.
Reviews / Votes
" ... interesting, which from someone as sceptical about theory as I am is a strong recommendation."-Clifford Bartlett, Early Music Review June 2003More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Lincoln
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
13 tables, 29 musical illustrations, 6 figures, index
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 153 mm
Weight
636 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8032-3219-8 (9780803232198)
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Persons
Andreas Giger is an assistant professor of music at Louisiana State University. Thomas J. Mathiesen is Distinguished Professor of Music, David H. Jacobs Chair in Music, and director of the Center for the History of Music Theory and Literature at Indiana University. He is the author of Apollo's Lyre: Greek Music and Music Theory in Antiquity and the Middle Ages, and he is the editor of Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum: Canon of Data Files; both books published by the University of Nebraska Press.The contributors, whose work spans historical periods from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century, include Thomas Christensen (University of Chicago), Calvin M. Bower (University of Notre Dame), Margaret Bent (Oxford University), Anthony Newcomb (University of California, Berkeley), Tim Carter (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill), John Walter Hill (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne), Dan Harran (Hebrew University, Jerusalem), Wye J. Allanbrook (University of California, Berkeley), Philip Gossett (University of Chicago), Lee Rothfarb (University of California, Santa Barbara), Robert P. Morgan (Yale University), David Neumeyer (University of Texas at Austin), and Lewis Rowell (Indiana University).