Interpreting Music

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ID8109315
AuthorsLawrence Kramer (0000-0002-0612-6347, corresponding author)
Year2010
Pages336
Publication date2010-02-11
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueInterpreting Music (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherUniversity of California Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1525/california/9780520267053.001.0001
OpenAlexW4236081300
Open LibraryOL26797826M
ISBN9780520267053
LanguageEN
Citations received7

This book is a comprehensive discussion on understanding musical meaning and performing music meaningfully—"interpreting music" in both senses of the term. Synthesizing and advancing two decades of work, it 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. The book 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. It 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

Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Interpretation (philosophy · Linguistics · Literature · Meaning (existential · Music and emotion · Music history · Music psychology · Musical · Musical composition · Performativity · Repertoire · Diverse Musicological Studies · Musicology and Musical Analysis · History and criticism · Music · Music, history and criticism · Philosophy and aesthetics · Philosophy

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