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Understanding Music - The Nature and Limits of Musical Cognition (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Understanding Music - The Nature and Limits of Musical Cognition (Hardcover, New Ed)
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In an age when our patterns of music consumption are changing
rapidly, musical understanding has never been more relevant.
Understanding Music provides readers with an ideal entry point to
the topic, addressing 'both the music lover who has made listening
to music an important part of his life and at the same time is
willing to reflect on music and his encounter with it, as well as
the more academically-minded enthusiast and the thoughtful expert.'
Its author, Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht, was one of the most
influential German musicologists of the twentieth century and yet
he is almost unknown to English readers. His published work
stretches from one end of the musicological spectrum to the other,
with research on historical topics in early music, Bach, Beethoven
reception, Mahler and music aesthetics all featuring. Understanding
Music summarizes Eggebrecht's thoughts on the relationship between
music and cognition. As he says in his preface, the purpose of his
book is 'to direct the reader towards the fundamental issues and
processes implied in understanding music. What does understanding
mean when applied to music? How is the process to be described?
What different kinds of understanding are to be distinguished here?
What other concepts are implicit in and related to the concept of
understanding? How is the relationship between music and the
listener who understands it to be articulated? What might correct
understanding of music mean given music's multiplicity of meaning
and effect? Where are the limits of understanding and what lies
beyond? What role do language and history play?'. Eggebrecht's
answers to these and other questions amount to a compelling account
of how the mind grasps the sounds of music in themselves and what
other factors contribute to music's meaning so much to us as
listeners.
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