Scholarship since 1300

Scholarship since 1300 has dealt with a broad range of topics, with varying degrees of emphasis throughout this long period. As in earlier scholarship, most topics have reflected one of two basic points of view, the theoretical (śāstra), or the practical (sampradāya), dealing with music as it was performed at particular points in history. In many ways this division (like the scholarly enterprise itself) highlights the social, intellectual, and practical boundaries of literary and applied musical...