New Musicology

New musicology is the cultural study, analysis, and criticism of music.

A few months ago I welcomed the new musicology for its willingness to explore ways of discussing music.

More recently, a basic thrust of the so-called new musicology has been to penetrate such insulation.

The new musicology insists that each work is inscribed with the interests and prejudices of its origins.

Researchers emphasizing the social importance of music (including classical music) are sometimes called New musicology.

Robert Walser is an American musicologist associated with the "new musicology".

The new musicology rejected the formal analysis and detached scholarship that had dominated the field in the previous half-century.

This often holds true for the new musicology as well, which cherishes its own versions of dripping blood and heartsick lovers.

New musicology scholars seek ways to apply anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, gender studies, feminism, and history to the study of music.

The new musicology is itself a Faustian venture; once leaving the confines of the discipline, practitioners are vulnerable to all manner of temptation.

The introduction of sexual interpretations into discussions of classical music has often seemed far-fetched and resulted in ridicule for practitioners of the "new musicology."

The journal publishes special issues on various topics in popular music studies, new musicology, ethnomusicology, sociology, geography, cultural history, cultural studies, aesthetics, etc.

"The New Musicology", in Critical Entertainments: Music Old and New, pp.

"Adorno and the New Musicology," in Adorno: A Critical Reader, ed.

The study of new musicology does not follow a consistent methodology and definitions of new musicology vary widely.

It covers a variety of topics, including Oliver Strunk, the work of various composers, the status of contemporary music, and the New Musicology.

Critics of the New Musicology include Pieter van den Toorn and to a lesser extent Charles Rosen.

The New Musicology is a term applied to a wide body of musicology since the 1970s with a focus upon the cultural study, aesthetics, and criticism of music.

Kivy, Peter 'Absolute Music' and the 'New Musicology' in Musicology and Sister Disciplines.

New Musicology is distinct from German music sociology in the work of Adorno, Max Weber and Ernst Bloch.

The great promise of the new musicology is that under skilled hands, music can be revealed as a powerful metaphorical system of sound: it is "about" society, sexuality or philosophy.

The new musicology might show how Beethoven's late string quartets embody attitudes toward reason and faith, or why Chopin's preludes are deliberately odd in shape and style.

The new musicology has its origins in the writings of Theodor Adorno (1903-1969), a German Marxist philosopher (and a composer who studied with Alban Berg).

New musicology was a reaction against traditional historical musicology, which according to Susan McClary, "fastidiously declares issues of musical signification off-limits to those engaged in legitimate scholarship."