ABSTRACT
Historical research in music can range from studying musical styles and forms to uncovering historical materials that have been ignored or forgotten in the existing music scholarship and practice. It is always more interesting to place musical events or a musician’s biography in their political, social, or cultural context and oen raising substantive questions. Rainbow and Froehlich (1987) explain that “General knowledge of the time period under study is applied to interpret the ndings of the questions and draw conclusions from them. As careful scholars, historians are equally concerned with nding facts [and] … the development of theories of history” (p. 107).
