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Readings in Music History by W.
Oliver Strunk (Editor), Leo
Treitler, Oliver
Strunk
The
definitive collection of great writings on music from
ancient Greece through the twentieth century. Forty-five
years after the appearance of the first edition, Oliver
Strunk's monumental anthology of writings about music
has been thoroughly revised and extended by a team
of scholars working under the direction of musicologist
Leo Treitler. For this new edition, seven specialists
in music history have replaced some selections, added
others, contributed new translations, and provided
additional notes and introductions. An entire new
section, covering the twentieth century, significantly
enlarges the book's scope. Readers can now acquire
a comprehensive picture of Western musical thought
and ideas through the ages.
About
the Author
Leo Treitler, Distinguished Professor of Music at
the City University of New York, is the author of
Music and the Historical Imagination, as well
as other books and articles on music historiography
and medieval music.
 The
Origins of Music by Nils L. Wallin (Editor), Bjorn
Merker (Editor), Steven Brown (Editor)
What
biological and cognitive forces have shaped humankind's
musical behavior and the rich global repertoire of musical
structures? What is music for, and why does every human
culture have it? What are the universal features of
music and musical behavior across cultures? In this
groundbreaking book, musicologists, biologists, anthropologists,
archaeologists, psychologists, neuroscientists, ethologists,
and linguists come together for the first time to examine
these and related issues. The book can be viewed as
representing the birth of evolutionary biomusicology--the
study of which will contribute greatly to our understanding
of the evolutionary precursors of human music, the evolution
of the hominid vocal tract, localization of brain function,
the structure of acoustic-communication signals, symbolic
gesture, emotional manipulation through sound, self-expression,
creativity, the human affinity for the spiritual, and
the human attachment to music itself.
Contributors:
Simha Arom, Derek Bickerton, Steven Brown, Ellen Dissanayake,
Dean Falk, David W. Frayer, Walter Freeman, Thomas
Geissmann, Marc D. Hauser, Michel Imberty, Harry Jerison,
Drago Kunej, François-Bernard Mâche, Peter Marler,
Björn Merker, Geoffrey Miller, Jean Molino, Bruno
Nettl, Chris Nicolay, Katharine Payne, Bruce Richman,
Peter J. B. Slater, Peter Todd, Sandra Trehub, Ivan
Turk, Maria Ujhelyi, Nils L. Wallin, Carol Whaling.
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