1st Edition

The Routledge Companion to Applied Musicology

Edited By Chris Dromey Copyright 2023
398 Pages 54 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

398 Pages 54 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

398 Pages 54 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The Routledge Companion to Applied Musicology brings together academics, artist-researchers, and practitioners to provide readers with an extensive and authoritative overview of applied musicology. Once a field that addressed music’s socio-political or performative contexts, applied musicology today encompasses study and practice in areas as diverse as psychology, ecomusicology, organology,... Read more

List of Figures

List of Contributors

Introduction  Chris Dromey

Part I. Defining and Theorising Applied Musicology

1. From Spitta to Seeger: Early Theories of Applied Musicology  Malik Sharif 

2. Musicology’s Applied Foundations (or, How Music was Musealised)  Miloš Zapletal and

            Chris Dromey

3. The Late Nineteenth-Century Concert as Applied Musicology  Natasha Loges

4. “Applied” before Musicology? George Grove, Programme Notes, and the Dictionary 

            Bruno Bower

5. Phenomenology, Practice-led Research, and Applied Musicology  Nancy November

6. The Locations of Musical Meaning and Subjectivity  Alastair Williams

 

Part II. Public Engagement

7. Shaping the Narrative: Musicology for a Public  Leah Broad

8. Exhibiting Ethnomusicology: Curation Across Cultures and Disciplines  Frances Wilkins,

            Barbara Alge and the Aanischaaukamikw Cree Cultural Institute

9. Club Inégales, Curation, and Processes of Public Musicology  Helen Julia Minors

10. Cultural and Artistic Citizenship in Classical Music  Constanze Wimmer and Chris

            Dromey

11. Musicology and/as Knowledge Exchange  Toby Young

12. ‘So wide is the field’: Edward Taylor’s Public Music Lectures  Rachel Johnson

 

Part III. New Approaches and Research Methods

13. The Sound Commons and Applied Ecomusicologies  Aaron S. Allen, Taylor Leapaldt,

            Mark Pedelty and Jeff Todd Titon

14. Perceptions of Melodic Symmetry: A Priming Study  Michael Thorpe

15. Opera Virgins at the Movies: Audience Research and the Ontology of Opera Cinema 

            Joe Attard

16. Towards an Applied Health Musicology: Aesthetic Music Therapy and Beyond  Colin

            Andrew Lee and Chris Dromey

17. “Parental Advisory”: Making Explicit the Value and Authenticity of a Music Degree 

            Paul Fleet

 

Part IV. Representation and Inclusion

18. Rethinking Representation in Music Education: Strategies to Integrate Pan-African Music

            Karen Cyrus

19. Whose ‘Better World’? Reflections on Applied Music Interventions in the Andes 

            Xabier Etxeberria Adrien and Henry Stobart

20. Rethinking (Self-)Care in Musicology  Klisala Harrison

21. The Legality and Morality of Rap at Court  Lily E. Hirsch

22. Strategies for Using Music Theory to Inform Music Education, Psychology, and

            Therapy Research  Adam Ockelford

 

Part V. Musicology in/for Performance

23. “Mahler am Tisch”: Experimenting with Imagined and Emergent Audiences  Ties van de

            Werff, Veerle Spronck and Imogen Eve

24. On Organology: Taxonomy and Transdisciplinarity  Rachael Durkin and Darryl Martin

25. Dialogues with Recordings: Digital Memory and the Archive  Neil Heyde

26. Intersections Between Northern Irish Choral Practices and Community Music Principles

            Sarah-Jane Gibson and Lee Higgins

27. Music for Buildings, Building for Music  Neil Thomas Smith and Peter Peters

 

References

Index

Biography

Chris Dromey is Associate Professor of Music at Middlesex University, where he has led BA Music Business and Arts Management since 2006. He is co-editor of The Classical Music Industry (Routledge, 2018).