MUS 700: Music Research Techniques & Bibliography
Course Outline
Readings and Assignments
Click on a date for the readings and assignments due that day. Instructions for assignments without links will be discussed in class.
Assignments and readings are subject to revision, please always follow assignment list handed out and discussed in class unless otherwise noted.
NG - The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2001 edition unless otherwise noted
30 August - Introduction and overview; Library Tour; CUNY+ & CUNY E-resources; Internet searching; ILL; Professional Development part 1
6 September - Classes follow a Monday schedule
13 September - Primary v. Secondary sources; Evaluating sources; Music Dictionaries and Encyclopedias; Musicology
Readings (to be selected from the following)
Bryson, ix-xiii
Wingell, 1-8; 102-21
Bellman, 1-19
Booth, 263-82
Radice, 169-81
StrunkDuckles, Vincent, et al. “Musicology,” section I. In NG 17:488-92.
Harap, Louis. “On the Nature of Musicology.” Musical Quarterly 23 (1937): 18-25.
Harrison, Frank Llewellyn. “American Musicology and the European Tradition.” In Musicology, 1-85. ML 3797 H27 M9
Hibberd, Lloyd. “Musicology Reconsidered.” Acta Musicologica 31 (1959): 25-31.
Kerman, Joseph. “American Musicology in the 1990s.” Journal of Musicology 9 (1991):131-44.
Kerman, Joseph. “A Profile for American Musicology.” Journal of the American Musicological Society 18 (1965): 61-69.
Krohn, Ernst C. “The Development of Modern Musciology.” In Historical Musicology: A Reference Manual for Research in Music, edited by Lincoln B. Speiss, 153-73. ML 3797 S75
Lippman, Edward A. “What Musicology Should Be.” Current Musicology 1 (1965): 55-60.
Marvin, Roberta Montemorra. “Scholarly Inquiry in Historical Musicology: Sources, Methods, Interpretations.” In Historical Musicology: Sources, Methods, Interpretations. Edited by Stephen A. Crist and Roberta Montemorra Marvin, 1-7. ML 55 M265 H57 2004.
Randel, Don Michael. “The Canons in the Musicological Toolbox.” In Disciplining Music. Edited by K. Bergeron and P. Bohlman, 10-22. ML 3797.1 D5 1992
Tischler, Hans. “And What is Musicology?” Music Review 30 (1969): 253-60.
Wegman, Rob C. “Historical Musicology: Is It Still Possible?” In The Cultural Study of Music, 136-45.Assignments
Autobiography
Scholar entry
20 September -
Periodicals; Indexes; Professional Development part 2; Ethnomusicology
Readings (to be selected from the following)
Booth, 285-88.
Holoman. “Publishing and/or Perishing.” In Musicology in the 1980s: Methods, Goals, Opportunities, 119-130.Bohlman, Philip. “Representation and Cultural Critique in the History of Ethnomusicology.” In Comparative Musicology and Anthropology of Music, pp. 131-48. ML 3799 C69 1990
Hood, Mantle. “Music, the Unknown. In Musicology, by Frank Ll. Harrison, Mantle Hood, and Claude V. Palisca, pp. 215-36.
Hood, Mantle. “The Reliability of Oral Tradition.” Journal of the American Musicological Society 12 (1959): 201-209.
Merriam, Alan. “Definitions of ‘Comparative Musicology’ and ‘Ethnomusicology’: An Historical-Theoretical Perspective.” Ethnomusicology 21 (1977): 189-204.
Familiarize yourself with:
Chicago Manual of Style
Strunk Elements of Style webpage
27 September - Bibliographies; Catalogues; Systematic Musicology
Readings (to be selected from the following)
The essays on systematic musicology from the Annual Meeting of the College Music Society, Denver 1980, published in College Music Symposium 22/1 (1982): 78-119.
McCredie, Andrew D. “Systematic Musicology—Some 20th-century Patterns and Perspectives.” Studies in Music 5 (Australia) (1971):1-35. ML 5 A93 S
Seeger, Charles. “Systematic and Historical Orientations in Musicology.” Acta Musicologica 11 (1939):121-28.
Seeger, Charles. “Systematic Musicology: Viewpoints, Orientations, and Methods.” Journal of the American Musicological Society 4 (1951):240-48.
4 October - Thematic Catalogues; Bio-Bibliographies/Research Guides; Biographies; Biography; Gender Studies
Adams, Byron. “The ‘Dark Saying’ of the Enigma: Homoeroticism and the Elgarian Paradox.” 19th-Century Music 23/3 (Spring 2000): 218-35.
Bowers, Jane. “Feminist Scholarship and the Field of Musicology.” College Music Symposium 29 (1989): 81-92; 30 (1990): 1-13. ML 27 U5 C69
Burnham, Scott. “A.B. Marx and the Gendering of Sonata Form.” In Music Theory in the Age of Romanticism, 163-186. MT 6 M96208 1996
Citron, Marcia. “Gender and the Field of Musicology.” Current Musicology 53 (1993): 66-75.
Citron, Marcia J. “Gender, Professionalism, and the Musical Canon.” Journal of Musicology 8 (1990), 102-17.
Kimber, Marian Wilson. “The ‘Suppression’ of Fanny Mendelssohn: Rethinking Feminist Biography” 19th-Century Music 26/2 (Fall 2002), 113-29.
Lenneberg, Hans. “Collective Biography and National Pride.” In Witness and Scholars: Studies in Musical Biography, 66-81.
Lenneberg, Hans. “The Composer as Romantic Hero.” In Witness and Scholars: Studies in Musical Biography, 117-37.
Philip, Brett. “Piano Four-Hands: Schubert and the Performance of Gay Male Desire.” 19th-Century Music 21/2 (Fall 1997): 149-76.
Solie, Ruth. “Defining Feminism: Conundrums, Contexts, Communities.” Women & Music 1 (1997): 1-11.
Solie, Ruth. “What Do Feminists Want? A Replay to Pieter Van den Toorn.” Journal of Musicology 9/4 (1991): 399-411.
Solomon, Maynard. “Franz Schubert and the Peacocks of Benvenuto Cellini.” 19th-Century Music 12/3 (Spring 1989): 193-206.
Steblin, Rita. “The Peacock’s Tale: Schubert’s Sexuality Reconsidered.” 19th-Century Music 17/1 (Summer 1993): 5-33.
Van den Toorn, Pieter. “Politics, Feminism, and Contemporary Music Theory.” Journal of Musicology 9/3 (1991): 275-99.
Whitesell, Lloyd. “Britten’s Dubious Trysts.” Journal of the American Musicological Society 56/3 (Fall 2003): 637-94.
11 October - History and Theory Books; Professional Development part 3; Historiography; Analysis
Readings (to be selected from the following)
Agawu, Kofi. “Analyzing Music under the New Musicological Regime.” Journal of Musicology 15 (1997): 297-307.
Agawu, Kofi. “Does Music Theory Need Musicology.” Current Musicology 53 (1993): 89-98.
Agawu, Kofi. “What Adorno Makes Possible for Music Analysis.” 19th-Century Music 29/10 (Summer 2005): 49-55.
Bent, Ian and Anthony Pople. “Analysis.” In NG, 1:526-89.
Botstein, Leon. “Cinderella; or Music and the Human Sciences.” Current Musicology 53 (1993): 124-34.
Burkholder, Peter J. “Music Theory and Musicology. (A Symposium: Music Theory and Other Disciplines: Three Views).” Journal of Musicology 11 (1993): 11-24.
Chase, Gilbert. “The Musicologist as Historian: A Matter of Distinction.” Notes 29 (September 1972): 10-16.
Christensen, Thomas. “Music Theory and Its Histories.” In Music Theory and Exploration of the Past, 9-39. MTm6 M96205 1993
Cook, Nicholas. A Guide to Musical Analysis. New York: George Braziller, 1987.
MT 6 C775 G8 1987
Duckles, Vincent. “Patterns in the Historiography of Nineteenth-Century Music.” Acta Musicologica 42 (1970): 75-82.
Harper-Scott, J. P. E. “Elgar’s Invention of the Human: Falstaff, Op. 68.” 19th-Century Music 28/3 (Spring 2005): 230-53.
Kerman, Joseph. “How We Got into Analysis, and How to Get Out.” In Write All These Down: Essays on Music. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.
McCreless, Patrick. “Contemporary Music Theory and the New Musicology: An Introduction.” Journal of Musicology 15 (1997): 291-296.
Middleton, Richard. “Popular Music Analysis and Musicology: Bridging the Gap.” Popular Music 12/2 (1993): 177-91.
Schubert, Peter. “Authentic Analysis.” Journal of Musicology 12/1 (1994): 3-19.
Solie, Ruth. “The Living Work: Organicism and Musical Analysis.” 19th-Century Music 4 (1980): 7-56.
Stanley, Glenn. “Historiography.” In NG, 2000.
Treitler, Leo. “Music Analysis in an Historical Context.” College Music Symposium 6 (1966): 75-88.
Treitler, Leo. “Structural and Critical Analysis.” In Musicology in the 1980s, 67-78.
Treitler, Leo. “What Kind of Story is History.” 19th-Century Music 7 (1984):363-73.63-73.Book Review selection due
18 October - Anthologies; Social/Cultural Studies
Readings (to be selected from the following)
Ballantine, Christopher. “Music and Society: The Forgotten Relationship.” Chapter 1 of Music and Its Social Meanings. New York: Gordon & Breach, 1984.
ML 3795 B28 1984
Bohlman, Philip. “Musicology as a Political Act.” Journal of Musicology 11 (1993): 411-436.
Fillion, Michelle. “Edwardian Perspectives on Nineteenth-Century Music in E. M. Forster’s A Room with a View.” 19th-Century Music 25/2-3 (Fall/Spring 2001-2002): 266-95.
Forman, Murray. The ‘Hood Comes First: Race, Space, and Place in Rap and Hip-Hop. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2002. ML 3918 R37 M67 2002
Haar, James. “Music History and Cultural History.” Journal of the Musicology 1 (January 1982), 5-14.
Lenneberg, Hans. “Speculating about Sociology and Social History.” Journal of Musicology 6 (1988): 409-20.
Music Cultures in the United States: An Introduction. Edited by Ellen Koskoff. New York: Routledge, 2005. ML 3917 U6 M87 2005
Tomlinson, Gary. “The Web of Culture: A Context for Musicology.” 19th-Century Music 7/3 (3 April 1984), 350-62.Paper Proposals & Annotated Bibliographies due
25 October - Facsimiles; Source Readings; RISM; Archival Research; Source Studies
Readings (to be selected from the following)
“Archives and Music.” In New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
Hammond, Frederick. “Researching the Past: Archival Studies.” In Companion to Medieval and Renaissance Music, 234-238. ML 172 C65 1992
Lesure, François. “Archival Research: Necessity and Opportunity.” In Perspectives in Musicology, 56-79.
Noble, Jeremy. “Archival Research.” In Musicology in the 1980s, 31-37.
Porter, Cecilia Hopkins. “The New Public and the Reordering of the Musical Establishment: The Lower Rhine Music Festivals, 1818-67.” 19th-Century Music 3/3 (March 1980): 211-24.“Sources, MS. I. Introduction.” In New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
Hertzmann, Erich. “Mozart’s Creative Process.” Musical Quarterly 43 (1957), 187-200.
Holoman, D. Kern. “The Berlioz Sketchbook Recovered.” 19th-Century Music 7/3 (3 April 1984), 282-317.
Johnson, Douglas and Alan Tyson. “Reconstructing Beethoven’s Sketchbooks.” Journal of the American Musicological Society 25 (1972): 137-156.
LaRue, Jan. “Watermarks and Musicology.” Acta musicologica 33 (1961): 120-46.
Norwood, Patricia. “Evidence Concerning the Provenance of the Bamberg Codex.” Journal of Musicology 8 (1990): 491-505.
Pinegar, Sandra. “The Seeds of Notation and Music Paleography.” Current Musicology 53 (1993): 99-109.
Planchart, Alejandro. “Fragments, Palimpsests, and Marginalia.” Journal of Musicology 6 (1988): 293-339.
Poriss, Hilary. “Making their Way through the World: Italian One-Hit Wonders.” 19th-Century Music 24/3 (Spring 2001): 197-224.
Treitler, Leo. “The Early History of Music Writing in the West.” Journal of the American Musicological Society 35 (1982): 237-79.
Wolff, Christoph. “New Research on Bach’s Musical Offering.” Musical Quarterly 57 (1971): 379-408.
1 November - Louis Armstrong Archives Tour - meet in the Rosenthal entryway at 4:25!!
8 November - Collected Editions; Editing; Performance Practice
Readings (to be selected from the following)
Caldwell, John. Editing Early Music. ML 63 C29
Grier, James. “Editing.” In NG. 7:885-95.
Mendel, Arthur. “The Purposes and Desirable Characteristics of Text-Critical Editions.” In Modern Musical Scholarship, 14-27.
Taruskin, Richard. “On Letting Music Speak for Itself.” Journal of Musicology 1 (1982): 338-49.
Butt, John. “Authenticity.” In NG 2:241-42.
Cook, Nicholas. “Music as Performance.” In The Cultural Study of Music, 204-14.
Lang, Paul Henry. Musicology and Performance. Edited by Alfred Mann and George J. Buelow. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1997. (See pages 171-231) ML 60 L2362 1997
Marissen, Michael. “Performance Practice Issues that Affect Meaning in Two Bach Instrumental Works. In Historical Musicology: Sources, Methods, Interpretations. Edited by Stephen A. Crist and Roberta Montemorra Marvin, 57-84. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2004.
ML 55 M265 H57 2004
Taruskin, Richard, et. al. “The Limits of Authenticity: A Discussion.” Early Music 12 (1984): 3-25.
Taruskin, Richard. “The Musicologist and the Performer.” In Musicology in the 1980s, 101-17.RISM assignment due
15 November - Historical Sets; Criticism/Hermenuetics (Narratology, Gender Criticism, Poltical Criticism)
Readings (to be selected from the following)
Barbera, André. “New and Revised Approaches to Text Criticism in Early Music Theory.” Journal of Musicology 9 (1991): 57-73.
Blum, Stephen. “In Defense of Close Reading and Close Listening.” Current Musicology 53 (1993): 41-54.
Dahlhaus, Carl. “Hermeneutics in History.” In Foundations of Music History, 71-84.
Gramit, David. “Schubert’s Wanderers and the Autonomous Lied.” Journal of Musicological Research 14/3-4 (1995): 147-168.
Grey, Thomas. “Metaphorical Modes in Nineteenth-Century Music Criticism: Image, Narrative, and Idea.” In Music and Text: Critical Inquiries, 93-117. ML 3849 M935 1991
Knapp, Raymond. “Suffering Children: Perspectives on Innocence and Vulnerability in Mahler’s Fourth Symphony.” 19th-Century Music 22/3 (Spring 1999): 233-67.
Kramer, Lawrence. “Hermeneutics and Musical History: A Primer without Rules, an Exercise with Schubert.” In Musical Meaning: Toward a Critical History, 1-10.
Kramer, Lawrence. “Tropes and Windows: An Outline of Musical Hermeneutics.” In Music as Cultural Practice, 1800-1900, 1-20.
Straus, Joseph. “Normalizing the Abnormal: Disability in Music and Music Theory.” Journal of American Musicological Society 59/1 (Spring 2006): 113-84.
Subotnik, Rose Rosengard. “Musicology and Criticism.” In Musicology in the 1980s.
Thomson, Aidan J. “Elgar and Chivalry.” 19th-Century Music 28/3 (Spring 2005): 254-75.Cone, Edward T. “Some Thoughts on ‘Erlkönig’.” In The Composer’s Voice, 1-19.
Kramer, Lawrence. “As If a Voice Were in Them’: Music, Narrative, and Deconstruction.” In Music as Cultural Practice, 1800-1900.
Kramer, Lawrence. “Musical Narratology: A Theoretical Outline.” In Classical Music and Postmodern Knowledge, 98-121.
Maus, Fred Everett. “Music as Narrative.” Indiana Theory Review 12 (1991): 1-34.
McGuire, Charles Edward. “Elgar, Judas, and the Theology of Betrayal.” 19th-Century Music 23/3 (Spring 2000), 236-72.
Nattiez, Jean-Jacques. “Can One Speak of Narrativity in Music?” Journal of the Royal Musical Association 115 (1990): 240-257.
Newcomb, Anthony. “Narrative Archetypes and Mahler’s Ninth Symphony.” In Music and Text: Critical Inquiries, 118-36.
Paley, Elizabeth. “‘The Voice Which Was My Voice’: Narrative and Nonnarrative in Musical Discourse in Schumann’s Manfred.” 19th-Century Music 24/1 (Summer 2000), 3-20.
Raphael, Stuart I. “Unraveling Narrativity: A Reflexive Paradigm.” Current Musicology 78 (Fall 2004): 53-76.
Tarasti, Eero. “A Narrative Grammar of Chopin’s G Minor Ballade.” Chopin Studies 5, 38-63.
Book Review due
22 November **No Class** HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
29 November - Discographies & Iconographies (Organology; Iconography); Aesthetics; Semiotics
Readings (to be selected from the following)
Alperson, Philip. “Introduction: New Directions in the Philosophy of Music.” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 52/1 (1991): 1-11.
Davies, Stephen. “Musical Understanding and Musical Kinds.” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 52/1 (1994): 69-81.
Duckles, Vincent and Lydia Goehr. “Musicology: 2:8: Aesthetics and Criticism.” In NG 17:503-504.
Goehr, Lydia. “Philosophy of Music 3: Aesthetics.” In NG 19:611-21.
Robinson, Jenefer. “The Expression and Arousal of Emotion in Music.” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 52/1 (Winter 1994): 13-22.
Scruton, Roger. The Aesthetics of Music. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997.
ML 3845 S3975 1997
Supicic, Ivo. “Instead of an Introductory Word.” International Review of Music Aesthetics and Sociology 1/1 (June 1970): 3-14.
Tunstall, Patricia. “Structuralism and Musicology: An Overview.” Current Musicology 27 (1979): 51-64.
Walton, Kendall. “Listening with Imagination: Is Music Representational?” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 52/1 (1994): 47-61.Cumming, Naomi. “Semiotics.” In NG, 23:66-68.
Dunsby, Jonathan. “Music and Semiotics: The Nattiez Phase.” Musical Quarterly 69 (1983): 27-43.
Ferrara, Lawrence. “Phenomenology as a Tool for Musical Analysis.” Musical Quarterly 70 (1984): 355-73.
Monelle, Raymond. “Music and the Peircean Trichotomies.” International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music 22/1 (June 1991): 99-108.
6 December - ***Paper Presentations***
13 December - ***Paper Presentations***
20 December Final Written Paper due by 5:00 pm (no class meeting)
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