Musicological

For years it merely lurked, a curiosity in musicological imagination - accruing stickiness when a reissue landed Slim Gaillard's "Chicken Rhythm" in my iPod (almost wrote 'I myPod', which sounds like a novel by Isaac Asimov) and a fortuitous shuffle placed it back-to-back with The Meters '"Chicken Strut". ❋ Unknown (2006)

It has to do with what you might call the musicological counter-reformation — the reaction against the New Musicology and various other revisionist strains. ❋ Matthew Guerrieri (2009)

Princeton University might have borrowed the rubric the Bard Music Festival uses for its composer explorations and called the musicological conference it held last weekend "Taruskin and His World." ❋ By JAMES R. OESTREICH (2012)

There are a lot of great musicians out there, but my fear is that jazz is going to become some sort of musicological novelty music rather than a sustainable art form. ❋ Mike Ragogna (2012)

Today, we take a musicological stab at getting to the bottom of an enduring mystery: when exactly John H. Watson, M.D., late of the Army Medical Department, met Sherlock Holmes. ❋ Matthew Guerrieri (2009)

Still no consensus, surprisingly enough — I thought after Ellen Harris's book the musicological world would be riled up enough to settle it once and for all. ❋ Matthew Guerrieri (2009)

Set in the round inside a former Victorian market hall, the Icelandic singer's latest project – Biophilia – feels less like a traditional gig, and more of a demonstration of whizz-bang musicological ideas. ❋ Unknown (2011)

And though his musicological meanderings on intervalic relations in given melodies may prove somewhat tiresome to a general reader, most of the book is devoted to an admirable effort to understand the key shows in Gershwin ' s career and how the productions shaped him as a composer. ❋ Eric Felten (2010)

Now this is hardly the most musicological of topics, and as for lyrical content goes you might want to come back in a week. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Whatever the musicological arguments for or against a fortepiano may be in these works, it is fascinating to hear how the instrument changes the way the three viola da gamba sonatas and excerpts from "The Well-Tempered Clavier" sound. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Vanessa Agnew has recently been developing an ethno-musicological account of how this topic came to have such importance from about the time of Charles Burney's musical travel writing in the ❋ Unknown (2008)

She began her musicological studies at the University of Freiburg under Wilibald Gurlitt and continued at the University of Leipzig under Theodore Kroyer. ❋ Unknown (2009)

From 1936 Gerson-Kiwi taught history of music and ethnomusicological subjects at various musical institutions in Israel and abroad, but only thirty years later — when departments of musicology were first established in Israel — was she able to fully realize her musicological skills. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Her work with Lachmann changed her musicological orientation and thereafter she devoted her entire research to the ethnic music of the oriental Jewish communities of Palestine and later of Israel. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In line with the awakening of worldwide interest in the musicological world, this even received its own designation, ethnomusicology. ❋ Unknown (2009)