Interpreting Music

Author:   Lawrence Kramer
Publisher:   University of California Press
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9780520267053


Pages:   336
Publication Date:   02 November 2010
Format:   Hardback
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"Interpreting Music is a comprehensive essay on understanding musical meaning and performing music meaningfully-""interpreting music"" in both senses of the term. Synthesizing and advancing two decades of highly influential work, Lawrence Kramer fundamentally rethinks the concepts of work, score, performance, performativity, interpretation, and meaning-even the very concept of music-while breaking down conventional wisdom and received ideas. Kramer argues that music, far from being closed to interpretation, is ideally open to it, and that musical interpretation is the paradigm of interpretation in general. The book illustrates the many dimensions of interpreting music through a series of case studies drawn from the classical repertoire, but its methods and principles carry over to other repertoires just as they carry beyond music by working through music to wider philosophical and cultural questions."

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Author:   Lawrence Kramer
Publisher:   University of California Press
Imprint:   University of California Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.544kg
ISBN:  

9780520267053


ISBN 10:   0520267052
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   02 November 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Contents List of Musical Examples 1. Hermeneutics 2. Language 3. Subjectivity 4. Meaning 5. Metaphor 6. History 7. Influence 8. Deconstruction 9. Analysis 10. Resemblance 11. Things 12. Classical 13. Modern 14. Works 15. Performance 16. Musicology Notes Index

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Well documented... Recommended. --Choice


Thoughtful and thought-provoking... All present are the qualities noted of Kramer's impeccable writing: grace, deftness of touch, wide reading. --Music & Letters Well documented... Recommended. --Choice


Author Information

Lawrence Kramer is Professor of Music and English at Fordham University. He is the author of many books, including Musical Meaning: Toward a Critical History; Opera and Modern Culture; and Why Classical Music Still Matters, all from UC Press.

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