Interpreting Music

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.

ISBN:	9780520267060
Publisher:	University of California Press
Imprint:	University of California Press
Published date:	02 Nov 2010
DEWEY:	781.1
DEWEY edition:	22
Language:	English
Number of pages:	352
Weight:	456g
Height:	227mm
Width:	150mm
Spine width:	21mm

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