Music, Imagination, and Culture Paperback / softback
by Nicholas (Professor of Music Cambridge University) Cook
Part of the Clarendon Paperbacks series
Paperback / softback
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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.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:272 pages, music examples
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:23/01/1992
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- ISBN:9780198163039
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:272 pages, music examples
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:23/01/1992
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- ISBN:9780198163039