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Author Kramer, Lawrence, 1946- author

Title The thought of music / Lawrence Kramer
Published Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]
©2016

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Description 1 online resource : music
Contents Music and the forms of thought -- Speaking of music : in search of an idiom -- The ineffable and how (not) to say it -- Pleasure and valuation -- The cultural field : beyond context -- Virtuosity, reading, authorship : a genealogy -- The newer musicology? Collaboration in theory and practice -- Postscript : imagining the score
Summary "What, exactly, is knowledge of music? And what does it tell us about humanistic knowledge in general? The Thought of Music, completing a trilogy on musical understanding with Interpreting Music and Expression and Truth, grapples directly with these fundamental questions--questions especially compelling at a time when humanistic knowledge is enmeshed in debates about its character and future. Lawrence Kramer seeks answers in both thought about music and thought in music--thinking in tones. He skillfully assesses musical scholarship in the aftermath of critical musicology and musical hermeneutics and in view of more recent concerns with embodiment, affect, and performance. This authoritative and timely work challenges the prevailing conceptions of every topic it addresses: language, context, and culture; pleasure and performance; and, through music, the foundations of understanding in the humanities."--Provided by publisher
Analysis critical musicology
humanistic knowledge
interpreting music
knowledge of music
music appreciation
music teachers
music theory
musical composition
musical embodiment
musical hermeneutics
musical knowledge
musical philosophy
musical scholarship
musical thought
musical understanding
musicians
musicology
performing arts
speaking music
study of music
teaching music
thought about music
thought in music
understanding music
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
Musicology -- History and criticism
Knowledge, Theory of.
epistemology.
MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Theory.
MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Classical.
Knowledge, Theory of
Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics
Musicology
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780520963627
0520963628