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Elisabeth Le Guin. Boccherini's Body: An Essay in Carnal Musicology.(Book review)

Studies in Romanticism,  December, 2006  by Winn, James A.

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Elisabeth Le Guin. Boccherini's Body: An Essay in Carnal Musicology. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. Pp. xxiv+350. $39.95.

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As an intellectual practice and as a department of the modern research university, musicology is a young discipline. Not until 1885 did Guido Adler attempt to define its areas and methods of study; not until the 1930s did American universities begin to produce doctoral dissertations analyzing music on historical and theoretical principles. Small wonder, then, that musicology has tended to borrow from disciplines with longer histories. As ...

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