Foundations of Music History

Contents

• Translator's preface
• Foreword
• 1. Is history on the decline?
• 2. The significance of art: historical or aesthetic?
• 3. What is a fact of music history?
• 4. Does music history have a 'subject'?
• 5. Historicism and tradition
• 6. Hermeneutics in history
• 7. The value-judgment: object or premise of history?
• 8. The 'relative autonomy' of music history
• 9. Thoughts on structural history
• 10. Problems in reception history
• Bibliography
• Index.