MUSC 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Jaap Kunst, Systematic Musicology
Document Summary
> study of music -covers everything: historical musicology-history of western art music; complete works editions;biography, systematic musicology. > folk musics, non western musics, acoustics, pedagogy. Live with and as one of the natives . Focus on the present (not looking at how music changed,etc) Include data, process, and theory in publication: ethnomusicology. > name coined by jaap kunst in 1950. > blending of techniques from comparative musicology and anthropology. > the field has continued to develop; new issues have included representation, homework vs fieldwork, globalization: 19th century view of music as fine art object rather than human process. > music exists as own, music is physically segregated (sheet music) > positivism: objective and measurable truth lies in the hard copy; devoid of human interaction, in the music itself. > collecting during european exploration, trade, and colonial times led to some studies of non-western music.
