Music and Historical Critique

Gary Tomlinson is Annenberg Professor in the Humanities at the 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.

Contents: Introduction; List of published writings; The web of culture: a context for musicology; Music and the claims of text: Monteverdi, Rinuccini and Marino; Opera and drame; Hugo, Donizetti and Verdi; Italian romanticism and Italian opera: an essay in their affinities; Pastoral and musical magic in the birth of opera; Musical pasts and postmodern musicologies: A Response to Lawrence Kramer and Tomlinson Responds; Giaches de Wert and the discourse of Petrarchism; Cultural dialogics and jazz: a white historian signifies; Unlearning the Aztec cantares (preliminaries to a postcolonial history); Finding ground to stand on; Self, other, and the emergence of musical modernity; Vico's songs: detours at the origins of (ethno)musicology; Ghosts in the machine; Hamlet and Poppea; Learning to curse at 67; Musicology, anthropology, history; 5 pictures of pathos; Il faut méditerraniser la musique: after Braudel; Index.