Music and Historical Critique: Selected Essays

Music and Historical Critique provides a definitive collection of Gary Tomlinson's influential studies on critical musicology, with the watchword throughout being history. This collection gathers his most innovative essays and lectures, some of them published here for the first time, along with an introduction outlining the context of the contributions and commenting on their aims and significance. Music and Historical Critique provides a retrospective view of the author's achievements in bringing to the heart of musicological discourse both deep-seated experiences of the past and meditations on the historian's ways of understanding them. About the Author: Gary Tomlinson is Annenberg Professor in the Humanities, University of Pennsylvania, USA. He is a specialist in music of the late Renaissance and early Baroque, opera, music and cross-cultural contact, and cultural history and historiography. He was awarded the Alfred Einstein prize of the American Musicological Society in 1982