Thought of Music

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

AvLawrence Kramer

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What, exactly, is knowledge of music? And what does it tell us about humanistic knowledge in general? The Thought of Music grapples directly with these fundamental questions-questions especially compelling at a time when humanistic knowledge is enmeshed in debates about its character and future. In this third volume in a trilogy on musical understanding that includes Interpreting Music and Expression and Truth, Lawrence Kramer seeks answers in both thought about music and thought in music-thinking in tones. He skillfully assesses musical scholarship in the aftermath of critical musicology and musical hermeneutics and in view of more recent concerns with embodiment, affect, and performance. This authoritative and timely work challenges the prevailing conceptions of every topic it addresses: language, context, and culture; pleasure and performance; and, through music, the foundations of understanding in the humanities. The publisher gratefully acknowledges the Joseph Kerman Endowment of the American Musicological Society, funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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Utgivningsdatum2016-01-12
Mått152 x 229 x 15 mm
Vikt318 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor224
FörlagUniversity of California Press
ISBN9780520288805

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Preface: The Thought of Music Acknowledgments 1 * Music and the Forms of Thought 2 * Speaking of Music: In Search of an Idiom 3 * The Ineffable and How (Not) to Say It 4 * Pleasure and Valuation 5 * The Cultural Field: Beyond Context 6 * Virtuosity, Reading, Authorship: A Genealogy 7 * The Newer Musicology? Context, Performance, and the Musical Work Postscript: Imagining the Score Notes Index of Names Index of Concepts

"The volume is essential; the issues under study here remain vital, and the author enunciates them clearly ... Summing up: recommended." CHOICE "Kramer has been hugely successful in creating a community of formalist and hermeneutic analytical discourse that has inspired a new generation of thinkers to question music's inherent meaning and value in contemporary society... a hugely important and timely work that should no doubt become the focus of much future work and pedagogy." Notes