Music, Imagination, And Culture (Clarendon Paperbacks) - Couverture souple

Cook, Nicholas

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0198163037 ISBN 13 : 9780198163039

Editeur : Oxford University Press, U.S.A., 2003

Synopsis

Musicians imagine music by means of functional models which determine certain aspects of the music while leaving others open. This gap between image and the experience it models offers a source of compositional creativity; different musical cultures embody different ways of imagining sound as music. Drawing on psychological and philosophical materials as well as the analysis of specific musical examples, Cook here defines the difference between music theory and aesthetic criticism, and affirms the importance of the "ordinary listener" in musical culture.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

It is a common experience that words are inadequate for music; there seems always to be a disparity between how music is experienced, and how it is described or rationalized. This book is a study of musical imagination. Musicians imagine music by means of functional models which determine certain aspects of the music while leaving others open. This means that there is inevitably a gap between the image and the experience that it models, and this gap can be a source of compositional creativity. Different musical cultures embody different ways of imagining sound as music, and thus every culture creates its own distinctive pattern of discrepancies between image and experience - discrepancies which are reflected in theoretical thinking about music. Drawing on psychological and philosophical materials as well as the analysis of specific musical examples, Nicholas Cook makes a clear distinction between the province of music theory and that of aesthetic criticism. In doing so he affirms the importance of the `ordinary listener' in musical culture, and the validity of his or her experience of music.

Revue de presse

This is a fascinating, learned, and provocative book ... It will start a debate amongst musical theorists which will continue over many years (Anthony Storr)

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
• Date d'édition: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0198163037
• ISBN 13: 9780198163039
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 276
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible