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Uncovering the depth behind musical compositions.

If you've ever listened to a piece of music and felt moved beyond words, "Interpreting Music" might just articulate what your heart has felt. It delves deep into the language of music, offering insights that resonate with both the seasoned musician and the curious listener. It's not just about notes on a page; it's an exploration of how music speaks to us all.

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Interpreting Music

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ISBN: 9780520267060
Authors: Lawrence Kramer
Date of Publication: 2010-11-02
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Music, Philosophy
Related Topics: Art, History, Memoir, Theory
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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.
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Uncovering the depth behind musical compositions.

If you've ever listened to a piece of music and felt moved beyond words, "Interpreting Music" might just articulate what your heart has felt. It delves deep into the language of music, offering insights that resonate with both the seasoned musician and the curious listener. It's not just about notes on a page; it's an exploration of how music speaks to us all.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.