Advance praise for Music, Encounter, Togetherness "Nicholas Cook's scholarship has long been distinguished by a wide-ranging erudition that has grown from a remarkable command of the literature in music studies and in many other disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Music, Encounter, Togetherness not only underscores that distinction, but it also raises it to the level of a Lebenswerk. This book is Cook at his finest, and it contains ideas, some from earlier research, others quite new, that represent his finest endeavors in the interdisciplinary intellectual spheres in which he works.