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The place of musicology in American institutions of higher learning / Manfred Bukofzer. Some aspects of musicology : three essays / Arthur Mendel, Curt Sachs and Carroll C. Pratt.

By: Bukofzer, Manfred F, 1910-1955 [author.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Da Capo Press music reprint series: Publisher: New York : Da Capo Press, [1977]Copyright date: ©1957Description: 88 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0306774070 (hardback).Contained works: Mendel, Arthur, 1905-1979. Some aspects of musicology | Sachs, Curt, 1881-1959. Some aspects of musicology | Pratt, Carroll C. 1894-1979. Some aspects of musicology.Subject(s): Musicology | Music in universities and colleges -- United StatesDDC classification: 780.01
Contents:
The progress of musicology -- The recognition of music in the college -- Education for music and education in music -- The traditional curriculum of music instruction -- The conservatory and the music school -- The academic music department -- The fallacy of the compromise solution -- The place of musicology in music instruction -- Music and musicology -- Aims of musicology -- The study of musical styles -- Musicology, a graduate study -- Analogy to the study of languages -- The pressure for degrees -- European and American plans of instruction -- Musical scholarship and "science" -- Musicology and the other humanistic disciplines -- The study of non-western music -- Tools and aids -- Prospects of musicology -- The services of musicology to the practical musician / Arthur Mendel -- The lore of non-western music / Curt Sachs -- Musicology and related disciplines / Carroll C. Pratt.

Reprint of the editions published by Liberal Arts Press, New York.

The progress of musicology -- The recognition of music in the college -- Education for music and education in music -- The traditional curriculum of music instruction -- The conservatory and the music school -- The academic music department -- The fallacy of the compromise solution -- The place of musicology in music instruction -- Music and musicology -- Aims of musicology -- The study of musical styles -- Musicology, a graduate study -- Analogy to the study of languages -- The pressure for degrees -- European and American plans of instruction -- Musical scholarship and "science" -- Musicology and the other humanistic disciplines -- The study of non-western music -- Tools and aids -- Prospects of musicology -- The services of musicology to the practical musician / Arthur Mendel -- The lore of non-western music / Curt Sachs -- Musicology and related disciplines / Carroll C. Pratt.

Dr. Geoffrey Spratt Collection.