Bach, Handel, Telemann, Gluck, Mozart, Schubert and Berlioz, which have been joined recently by Fauré and the series L’Opéra français and the Works of Gioachino Rossini. These include the complete editions of works by Schütz, J. Close contacts with musicological research led not only to the publication of the milestone encyclopaedia Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart (now in a second, completely revised and expanded edition), but also to a host of new critical complete editions, used extensively by both scholars and musicians all over the world. Beginning with the participation in the German singing movement during the 1920s, Protestant church music and the burgeoning interest in early music, the company quickly developed its distinctive profile. The firm was founded three years earlier in Augsburg by Karl Vötterle. In a firmly established practice of The World of Music, high-profile guest editors are invited to design issues and see them through the entire preparation process.īärenreiter’s headquarters have been based in Kassel, Germany since 1927. strongly encourages theoretical and methodological reflections on the study of the musics of the world.Įach issue focuses on a specific topic.

thinks across disciplinary boundaries and embraces a wide variety of approaches to the analytical study of the musics of the world, including indigenous methodologies, post-colonial, critical and queer perspectives and different indigenous methodologies. In this, it provides scholars from a multiplicity of academic backgrounds a forum for the discussion of musics from around the world, their dynamics and their many meanings, manifested in a variety of ever changing forms ranging from highly particular and localized systems of musical thinking in traditional musics to global (musical) cultural flows and consumption.

The World of Music is an international peer-reviewed journal seeking a critical understanding of performing arts and cultural practices involving music, dance and theater worldwide, as well as the many contexts in which they come into being.

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