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The Frontiers of Meaning
Charles Rosen
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Description for The Frontiers of Meaning
Paperback. Originally the content of three lectures given in Rome in 1993, this work offers a study of music, as text, as performance, and as listening experience. Num Pages: 148 pages, music examples. BIC Classification: AVA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 193 x 128 x 9. Weight in Grams: 186.
What does it mean to understand music? What, if anything, does music mean? Composers, performers, listeners, and academics may answer these questions differently, but what sense of music do they share? When music seems unfamiliar or unlike anything we have heard before, we may say that we don't like it. How is taking pleasure from music related to understanding it? This book explores these and other issues as they arise in various musical contexts. Performers' interpretations may be filled with errors, after all, that then become part of a tradition; a composer's work may be variously assessed by ... Read more
What does it mean to understand music? What, if anything, does music mean? Composers, performers, listeners, and academics may answer these questions differently, but what sense of music do they share? When music seems unfamiliar or unlike anything we have heard before, we may say that we don't like it. How is taking pleasure from music related to understanding it? This book explores these and other issues as they arise in various musical contexts. Performers' interpretations may be filled with errors, after all, that then become part of a tradition; a composer's work may be variously assessed by ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Kahn & Averill United Kingdom
Number of pages
148
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Condition
New
Weight
185g
Number of Pages
148
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781871082654
SKU
V9781871082654
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