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Essential Musicology Reading? (self.musicology)
submitted 1 year ago by Xenoceratops to c/musicology
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What would you consider to be essential reading for a newcomer to musicology? I took an "Intro to Musicology" course in grad school, but the readings were diffuse, dealing with historiography that wasn't necessarily music-oriented before peppering in some more pointed (but maybe too specific) case studies. I'm wondering if there's a good introductory tome you like to use, or at least some seminal books and papers that make the rest of the discipline make sense.

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[–] michaelgarydean 1 points 1 year ago

I’m also interested.

I read “Ethnomusicology: A Very Short Introduction” by Timothy Rice and I think its worth checking out, though it is indeed short. I would love to find more stuff to read.