A Case Study Of The Eightth Edition Of "Western Music History" By

This article through the researching on Grout’s eighth edition of A History ofWestern Music which must be the most authoritative music history textbook in NorthAmerica has carried on a series of analyses and explanations. This article selectsEnglish original edition published in2010, the eighth edition of this book as the mainresearch object, the full text is divided into three main parts, from the lineage ofcompiling style, individual research and value evaluation perspective, for musiceducation and future trend of development.The author firstly start from the three of A History of Western Music’s editors’differences, which means the inheritance relations, different ideas of editing thehistory and differences as well as its trace of development in a elaborate way.Meanwhile discussed the first editor Grout’s "stylistic criticism" and "positivism" and"European centre view" of the historical ideas, the second editor Palisca’s idea ofwhen compiled into the music anthropology of music and culture and so on freshblood, and the latest editor Burkholder’s innovation in ideas and vision.The second chapter focuses on the eighth edition of "the western music history"published in2010, made a comprehensive analysis on concrete cases, respectivelyexpounds can reflect "positivism","culture history view point","style criticism" andother concepts framework design, in order to highlight the diversification trend ofcontemporary music teaching material compilation; analyzed in order to make thehistory is no longer boring with focus on the narrative and vivid history of Syria’swriting style; Introduced the use of auxiliary teaching material with the book andfunction of auxiliary function of western music history teaching and research;Digging the civil rights movement, feminism and modern social ideological trend andphenomenon such as the middle class in the book of the specific performance;academic circles at home and abroad is discussed in the end the discussion about thepros and cons of this book, which tried to dialectic point of view right look at thebook. Finally the third chapter, through teaching taught and educated two angles tovisualize the pedagogy meanings of this book; Domestic and abroad evidence toconfirm the authority and value of the book in the academic circle, and summarizesthe trends of music history teaching and a direction of editing the textbook for musichistory in the future, as a mirror to our country.The full text of the narrative through three chapters, the author of the finalsystem overview Grout "History of Western Music, the eighth edition of the value ofthe significance lies, as well as to rationalize it in the whole history of human musicalnarrative history of the location for our music History textbooks proposed codificationcan learn from it.