Cognate Music Theories
The Past and the Other in Musicology (Essays in Honor of John Walter Hill)
Abstract
This volume explores the possibilities of cognate music theory, a concept introduced by musicologist John Walter Hill to describe culturally and historically situated music theory. Cognate music theories offer a new way of thinking about music theory, music history, and the relationship between insider and outsider perspectives when researchers mediate between their own historical and cultural position, and that of the originators of the music they are studying. With contributions from noted scholars of musicology, music theory, and ethnomusicology, this volume develops a variety of approaches using the cognate music theory framework and shows how this concept enables more nuanced and critical analyses of music in historical context.
Addressing topics in music from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries, this volume will be relevant to musicologists, music theorists, and all researchers interested in reflecting critically on what it means to construct a theory of music.
Keywords
Philosophy,Music & Visual Arts,History,Criticism,Cognate music theory,Music theory,Musicology,Music history,History of music theory,Musical analysis,Musical rhetoric,Historically informed theory,Historically informed performance,Ethnomusicology,European music history,Early modern music,Baroque music,Classical musicDOI
10.4324/9781003311690ISBN
9781003311690, 9781032025940, 9781032106656Publisher
Taylor & FrancisPublisher website
https://taylorandfrancis.com/Publication date and place
2024Imprint
RoutledgeSeries
Routledge Research in Music,Classification
Music
Theory of music and musicology