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Author:   Nicholas Cook (1684 Professorship, 1684 Professorship, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 23.60cm , Height: 4.10cm , Length: 16.30cm
Weight:   0.794kg
ISBN:  

9780199357406

ISBN 10:   0199357404
Pages:   480
Publication Date:   13 March 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents About the companion web site List of figures List of media examples Introduction 1 Plato's curse Sounded writing Performative turns? 2 Page and stage Theorist's analysis Performer's analysis Performance analysis 3 What the theorist heard Affecting the sentiment Spoken melody, or sung speech Schenker vs. Schenker 4 Beyond structure Structure in context Mozart's miniature theatre Rhetoric old and new In time and of time 5 Close and distant listening Reinventing style analysis Forensics vs. musicology Performing Poland The savour of the Slav 6 Objective expression Nature's nuance Phrase arching in history Phrase arching in culture 7 Playing somethin' Referents and reference The work as performance 8 Social scripts An ethnographic turn Sociality in sound Performing complexity 9 The signifying body 31 August 1970, 3.30 am The white man's black man 10 Everything counts Pleasures of the body Bodies in sound Building bridges 11 The ghost in the machine Music everywhere Original and copy Signifying sound 12 Beyond reproduction The best seat in the hall Acoustic choreography Rethinking the concert Making music together List of references

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Nicholas Cook is the 1684 Professor of Music at the University of Cambridge. Author of Music: A Very Short Introduction, which has been translated into fifteen languages, his book The Schenker Project: Culture, Race, and Music Theory in Fin-de-siècle Vienna won the Society for Music Theory's 2010 Wallace Berry Award. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and Academia Europaea.

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