Publication

2010-11-02 - University of California Press

Language

English

Word Count

84,000 words, Guess

Page Count

336 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Better World Books9780520267053
  • Open LibraryOL26797826M

Classifications

  • LCCML193.K73 2011
  • LCCML193 .K73 2011

Description

Interpreting Music is a comprehensive essay on understanding musical meaning and performing music meaningfully"interpreting music" in both senses of the term. Synthesizing and advancing two decades of highly influential work, Lawrence Kramer fundamentally rethinks the concepts of work, score, performance, performativity, interpretation, and meaning--even the very concept of music--while breaking down conventional wisdom and received ideas. Kramer argues that music, far from being closed to interpretation, is ideally open to it, and that musical interpretation is the paradigm of interpretation in general. The book illustrates the many dimensions of interpreting music through a series of case studies drawn from the classical repertoire, but its methods and principles carry over to other repertoires just as they carry beyond music by working through music to wider philosophical and cultural questions [Publisher description].

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  • Interpreting MusicUniversity of California Press2010-11-02

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