History Of Music

The field of music history, which sometimes is as historical musicology, the subdivision varies widely discipline musicology that studies the composition, performance, reception and criticism of music over time. Historical studies of music, for example, are interested in the life of a composer of works, the evolution of styles and genres (such as baroque concertos), the social function of music for a certain group of people (such as music at the court), or the modes of execution at a specific place and time (as the forces of the choir's performance of Johann Sebastian Bach in Leipzig).

Theoretically, could "relate music history" in the study of the history of a species or genus of music (eg, history of Indian music and rock history). In practice, the research subjects are almost always as part of the ethnography ethnomusicology and cultural studies, whether they are based.

The methods of music history include source studies (especially studies (manuscript), paleography, philology, textual criticism, in particular), style criticism, historiography (the choice of historical method), musical analysis, and iconography. The application of musical analysis to further these objectives is often a part of music history, but pure research or the development of new tools of music analysis is likely to see in the field of music theory. (For a detailed description of methods, see "Research in Music History" below) Some of the intellectual products of music historians editions of musical works, biographies of composers and musicians, studies on the relationship between words and music, and reflections on the place of music in society.