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- Interpreting Music
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: University of California Press
summary
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.
Table of Contents
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- TItle Page, Copyright
- pp. i-iv
- List of Musical Examples
- pp. vii-viii
- 1. Hermeneutics
- pp. 1-19
- 2. Language
- pp. 20-45
- 3. Subjectivity
- pp. 46-62
- 4. Meaning
- pp. 63-80
- 5. Metaphor
- pp. 81-95
- 6. History
- pp. 96-112
- 7. Influence
- pp. 113-128
- 8. Deconstruction
- pp. 128-143
- 9. Analysis
- pp. 144-161
- 10. Resemblance
- pp. 162-183
- 11. Things
- pp. 184-203
- 12. Classical
- pp. 204-219
- 13. Modern
- pp. 220-240
- 15. Performance
- pp. 258-277
- 16. Musicology
- pp. 278-290
- Index of Concepts
- pp. 315-318
- Index of Names
- pp. 319-322
- Production Notes
- p. 323
Additional Information
ISBN
9780520947368
Related ISBN(s)
9780520267060
MARC Record
OCLC
673617286
Pages
336
Launched on MUSE
2014-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No