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Musicology for Everyone

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Musicology is the academic study of music, as opposed to composition and performance. Sound boring? I hope not. Program notes at concerts or with CDs, background information about music on radio stations, or books about music probably came from the work of a musicologist. If you like that, you'll also enjoy my posts, mostly about "classical" music, with a look at "popular" music broadly speaking

• Added on: Oct 30th, 2009
• Country: United States
• Language: English

• Author: David Guion
• Listed in: Music Cultural
• Tags: classical music music history popular music musicology

Recent Posts

• My 10 favorite lesser-known Christmas pieces

  Posted on Friday December 18th, 2009 at 10:30 in choral music, christmas music

  I have been enjoying my Christmas records for the past couple of weeks. I have also seen plenty of online articles and blogposts with titles like, "The Ten Best Christmas Pieces of All Times," or more modestly, "My Ten Favorite Christmas Songs." A lo...

• Popular song in America, part 4: the influence of German songs

  Posted on Wednesday December 16th, 2009 at 10:30 in classical music, beethoven, popular music, schubert, nineteenth century, american popular music, german songs, weber (carl maria von)

  German-speaking people began to emigrate to America in modest numbers as early as the late seventeenth century. Generally, they got on well with the Anglophone majority and willingly adopted American habits and viewpoints. Settlements in Pennsylvania...

• Popular song in America, part 2: the influence of Italian opera

  Posted on Friday December 11th, 2009 at 12:48 in mozart, popular music, eighteenth century, rossini, nineteenth century, italian opera, american popular music, bishop (henry rowley)

  At first glance, the performance of Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville) in New York on November 29, 1825, seems to have little to do with popular music. It marks the first American production of any opera in Italian, or indeed a...

• Popular song in America, part 1: from colonial times to ca. 1825

  Posted on Wednesday December 9th, 2009 at 10:30 in Folk Music, popular music, eighteenth century, nineteenth century, american popular music

  It never ceases to amaze me how many books on American popular song begin their coverage somewhere in the twentieth century, as if nothing of interest came before. Popular music is essentially a business that requires constantly updated products. It ...

• "The Christmas Song"

  Posted on Monday December 7th, 2009 at 12:52 in popular music, tin pan alley, twentieth century, christmas music, "the christmas song", tormé (mel), wells (bob), cole (nat king)

  In a web environment, someone can write an article or record a song and put it online immediately. Conventional publishers must work months in advance of publication. Whatever new magazine articles on Christmas, Christmas record albums, etc. appear t...

• Did Sax invent the saxhorn?

  Posted on Friday December 4th, 2009 at 10:30 in france, military music, nineteenth century, saxhorn, sax (adolphe)

  (Saxhorns are the top row of instruments in this 1872 advertisement) In1845, French military music reached the bottom of a long decline. The war ministry, desiring to reorganize it completely, arranged for a contest among bands with various instrumen...

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