Music: A Very Short Introduction
What is music? How is it constructed? How is it consumed? Why do you enjoy it at all? In Music: A Very Short plays Introduction, Nicholas Cook invites us to really think about music and the role it plays in our lives and our ears. Drawing on a number of accessible examples, the author prompts us to call on our own musical experiences in order to think more critically about the roles of the performers and the listener, about music as a commodity and an experience, what it means to understand music, and the values we ascribe to it.This very short introduction, written with both humor and flair, begins with a sampling of music as human activity…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-285382-0
- EAN: 9780192853820
- Produktnummer: 8776626
- Verlag: Oxford Academic
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2000
- Seitenangabe: 160 S.
- Ausstattung: A-Format Paperback
- Masse: H17.1 cm x B10.8 cm x D0.8 cm 126 g
- Abbildungen: black and white halftones and line drawings
- Gewicht: 126
Über den Autor
Nicholas Cook is Professor of Music at Cambridge University He is the author of articles and books on a wide variety of musicological and theoretical subjects; the latest, from Oxford University Press, is The Schenker Project: Culture, Race, and Music Theory in fin-de-siècle Vienna. He was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 2001.
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