Comparing Notes: How We Make Sense of Music

Ockelford, Adam

ISBN 10: 1681777444 / ISBN 13: 9781681777443

Edité par Pegasus Books, 2018

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2018. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Small publisher's mark to text block. Otherwise Fine. Dust Jacket Is Fine.

N° de réf. du vendeur C52853

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Comparing Notes: How We Make Sense of Music
• Éditeur: Pegasus Books
• Date de parution: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1681777444
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781681777443
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• Édition: Edition originale
• État de l'article: Used - Like New
• État de la jaquette: Jaquette

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Synopsis

How does music work? Indeed, what is (or isn’t) music? We are all instinctively musical, but why? Adam Ockelford has the answers. 

A tap of the foot, a rush of emotion, the urge to hum a tune; without instruction or training we all respond intuitively to music. Comparing Notes explores what music is, why all of us are musical, and how abstract patterns of sound that might not appear to mean anything can, in fact, be so meaningful.

Taking the reader on a clear and compelling tour of major twentieth century musical theories, Professor Adam Ockelford arrives at his own important psychologically grounded theory of how music works. From pitch and rhythm to dynamics and timbre, he shows how all the elements of music cohere through the principle of imitation to create an abstract narrative in sound that we instinctively grasp, whether listening to Bach or the Beatles.

Authoritative, engaging, and full of wonderful examples from across the musical spectrum, Comparing Notes is essential reading for anyone who’s ever loved a song, sonata, or symphony, and wondered why. 

À propos de l?auteur

Adam Ockelford is Professor of Music at Roehampton University, where he directs the Applied Music Research Centre. Heis the author of In the Key of Genius, a biography of the musical savant Derek Paravicini. A regular on British radio and television, Ockelford's TED Talk with Paravicini has been viewed over one million times and has been translated into twenty-five languages. A composer and pianist, he lives in London.