Musicology: the Key Concepts provides a vital reference guide for students of contemporary musicology. Its clear and accessible entries cover a comprehensive range of terms including:- aesthetics- canon- culture- deconstruction- ethnicity- identity- subjectivity- value- workFully cross-referenced and with suggestions for further reading, this is an essential resource for all students of music.

Product Description: Chapters are: 'Between Romanticism and Modernism', 'Towards Odyssey', 'The Music', 'The Melodic Source', 'The Harmonic Dimension', 'Time and Narrative', 'Reception' and 'After Odyssey'.

Michael Tippett's oratorio A Child of Our Time was written at the beginning of the second world war as an expression of "man's inhumanity to man." This Handbook discusses the significant musical and literary features of this remarkable work within its specific historical, social and stylistic context. Attention is given to the shaping of Tippett's own text as well as its musical representation. Also of importance is the initial critical reception of the work, a reception that defined certain responses that still surround the work today.