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Beyond the Score - Music as Performance (Hardcover)
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Beyond the Score - Music as Performance (Hardcover)
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In Beyond the Score: Music as Performance, author Nicholas Cook
supplants the traditional musicological notion of music as writing,
asserting instead that it is as performance that music is loved,
understood, and consumed. This book reconceives music as an
activity through which meaning is generated in real time, as Cook
rethinks familiar assumptions and develops new approaches. Focusing
primarily but not exclusively on the Western 'art' tradition, Cook
explores perspectives that range from close listening to
computational analysis, from ethnography to the study of
recordings, and from the social relations constructed through
performance to the performing (and listening) body. In doing so, he
reveals not only that the notion of music as text has hampered
academic understanding of music, but also that it has inhibited
performance practices, placing them in a textualist straightjacket.
Beyond the Score has a strong historical emphasis, touching on
broad developments in twentieth-century performance style and
setting them into their larger cultural context. Cook also
investigates the relationship between recordings and performance,
arguing that we do not experience recordings as mere reproductions
of a performance but as performances in their own right. Beyond the
Score is a comprehensive exploration of new approaches and methods
for the study of music as performance, and will be an invaluable
addition to the libraries of music scholars-including
musicologists, music theorists, and music cognition
scholars-everywhere.
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