Truth, Lies and Ignorance In Contemporary Music-Historical Investigation

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Michael Beckerman

Abstract

This inaugural article, the first, published by the western
author in PMN, suggests a general view of the persistent, "resident" 
problem of any music-historical description, the problem
of precision and adequacy. What is the limit of truthfulness
of our accounts of historical event and how the specificity of
musical expression contributes into the inborn difficulty of
writing about history? The author has chosen an ultimate example,
the case of Gideon Klein's Trio, written in Terezin concentration
camp a few days before a transfer to Auschwitz.

Keywords: musicology, history of music, source study,
language of description, musical work, music in the concentration
camps, music and the Holocaust

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How to Cite
Beckerman, M. (2008). Truth, Lies and Ignorance In Contemporary Music-Historical Investigation. Music Scholarship / Problemy Muzykal’noj Nauki, 3(2), 9–17. Retrieved from https://musicscholar.ru/index.php/PMN/article/view/715
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Author Biography

Michael Beckerman, New York University

Professor Michael Beckerman –
Ph.D., Professor of Musicology, 
the Dean of Music Department