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Rarely studied in their own right, writings about music are often viewed as merely supplemental to understanding music itself. Yet in the nineteenth century, sc

Personalities: music scholars. Personalities: composers. National studies. Encyclopedias. Periodicals. Historiography & its directions

This surveys the philosophies of music of the most important thinkers in Islam between the 9th and the 15th centuries A.D. It covers topics ranging from the phy

Where do ideas fit into historical accounts that take an expansive, global view of human movements and events? Teaching scholars of intellectual history to inco

Scholars have long known that world music was not merely the globalized product of modern media, but rather that it connected religions, cultures, languages and