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Early Music History

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Early Music History
DisciplineMusic
LanguageEnglish
Edited byIain Fenlon
Publication details
History1981–present
Publisher
FrequencyAnnually
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4Early Music Hist.
Indexing
ISSN0261-1279 (print)
1474-0559 (web)
LCCN2007-233702
JSTOR02611279
OCLC no.49342621
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Early Music History is a peer-reviewed academic journal published annually by Cambridge University Press, which specialises in the study of music from the early Middle Ages to the end of the 17th century. It was established in 1981 and is edited by Iain Fenlon.

Early Music History exists to stimulate further exploration of familiar phenomena through unfamiliar means, and to add to the growing appreciation of the value of interdisciplianary approaches and their potentialities. Another emphasis might be called the contextual. At present some music historians tend to concentrate on the internal analysis of a composition and its relation to a specific and usually narrowly defined historical frame. Indeed, much musicological writing presents by implication a formidable orthodoxy in which history is perceived as a succession of paradigms of musical language, style, and form. Some recent work has attempted explanation through exploration of a wider range of evidence, and Early Music History intends to strengthen this trend by encouraging studies that examine the economic, political, and social ramifications of research. In that musicology itself can on benefit if its vision is extended and its methods refined and broadened, the board believes that Early Music History will mark a new departure in the development of the discipline while continuing to support its traditional tasks.

— Iain Fenlon, preface to Volume I[1]

References

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  1. ^ Iain Fenlon (1981). "Preface". Early Music History. 1: vii–vii. doi:10.1017/S0261127900000243. ISSN 1474-0559. S2CID 247415444.