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    The document discusses several key topics in music historiography and how music history is written and interpreted. It questions whether music history should follow a single narrative or consist of multiple strands. It also explores the relationship between oral and written musical traditions and how the past is interpreted through the lens of the present. Periodization of musical eras and the tension between continuity and rupture are also examined.

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    Introduction to Musicology

    Music Historiography
    Music history writing – the writing of music history

    Music as a work – not a performance but the full ideaology of it

    Conductor vs Composer

    How is the history of music written?


    Should it follow a narrative?
    Does it consist of one strand of development or several?

    Interpretation of the past informed by the present


    - The past – its broader patterns, movements, causes and effects
    - Affords objectivity – never totally objective

    Oral vs Written
    - Beware of simple/complex reduction of oral/notated binary

    Narratives in History
    - Music as a national identiy – fragmented ideas together

    Periodisation (romantic / baroque / classical etc)


    - Is it a true representation
    - Continuity vs Rupture

    Carl Dahlhaus
    - Beethoven – Rossini twin styles

    Musical Historicism
    - Antiquarianism
    o Fascination with the past

    Read intro to Taruskins 5-Volume – Oxford History of Western Music

    JSTOR

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