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Grappling With Donald Jay Grout’s Essays on Music Historiography

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dc.creator Kristy Johns Swift
dc.date 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned 2015-08-12T11:17:24Z
dc.date.available 2015-08-12T11:17:24Z
dc.identifier 2155-109X
dc.identifier https://doaj.org/article/9ffec1e8090240faa7b1978b2250dcc4
dc.identifier.uri http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/26306
dc.description Donald Jay Grout contributed more to musicology than his widely read textbooks A History of Western Music and A Short History of Opera. This paper explores Grout’s little-known essays on music historiography and previously unstudied archival material by employing theories of historians, Hayden White and Hans Kellner, to show Grout as historiographer, critic, pedagogue, and philosopher. White and Kellner posited that looking beyond a historical narrative’s finely tuned content uncovers the “middleground”—the place between the background (sources) and the foreground (narrative) where historians spend most of their time making decisions. In his essays and personal papers Grout established his middleground, one in which he outlined the tasks he deemed most important for musicologists: choosing a subject, maintaining objectivity, and explaining and narrating music history. He grappled with these issues and with a larger philosophical question: why write music history? Simply put, isn’t the music itself enough?
dc.language English
dc.publisher Pedagogy Study Group of the American Musicological Society
dc.relation http://www.ams-net.org/ojs/index.php/jmhp/article/view/7/48
dc.relation https://doaj.org/toc/2155-109X
dc.source Journal of Music History Pedagogy, Vol 1, Iss 2, Pp 135-166 (2011)
dc.subject Donald J Grout
dc.subject Hayden White
dc.subject Hans Keller
dc.subject music historiography
dc.subject Special aspects of education
dc.subject LC8-6691
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject DOAJ:Education
dc.subject DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject Music and books on Music
dc.subject M
dc.subject DOAJ:Music
dc.subject DOAJ:Arts and Architecture
dc.subject Special aspects of education
dc.subject LC8-6691
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject DOAJ:Education
dc.subject DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject Music and books on Music
dc.subject M
dc.subject DOAJ:Music
dc.subject DOAJ:Arts and Architecture
dc.subject Special aspects of education
dc.subject LC8-6691
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject Music and books on Music
dc.subject M
dc.subject Special aspects of education
dc.subject LC8-6691
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject Music and books on Music
dc.subject M
dc.subject Special aspects of education
dc.subject LC8-6691
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject Music and books on Music
dc.subject M
dc.title Grappling With Donald Jay Grout’s Essays on Music Historiography
dc.type article


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