This book is a study of musical imagination. Musicians imagine music by means of functional models which determine certain aspects of the music while leaving others open. This means that there is inevitably a gap between the image and the experience that it models, and this gap can be a source of compositional creativity. Different musical cultures embody different ways of imagining sound as music, and thus every culture creates its own distinctive pattern of discrepancies between image and experience - discrepancies which are reflected in theoretical thinking about music.
Drawing on psychological and philosophical materials as well as the analysis of specific musical examples, Nicholas Cook makes a clear distinction between the province of music theory and that of aesthetic criticism. In doing so he affirms the importance of the `ordinary listener' in musical culture, and the vailidity of his or her experience of music.
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This book is a study of musical imagination. Musicians imagine music by means of functional models which determine certain aspects of the music while leaving others open. This means that there is inevitably a gap between the image and the experience that it models, and this gap can be a source of compositional creativity. Different musical cultures embody different ways of imagining sound as music, and thus every culture creates its own distinctive pattern of discrepancies between image and experience - discrepancies which are reflected in theoretical thinking about music.
Drawing on psychological and philosophical materials as well as the analysis of specific musical examples, Nicholas Cook makes a clear distinction between the province of music theory and that of aesthetic criticism. In doing so he affirms the importance of the `ordinary listener' in musical culture, and the vailidity of his or her experience of music.
Imprint | Clarendon Press |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Series | Clarendon Paperbacks |
Release date | 1992 |
Availability | Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days |
First published | February 1992 |
Authors | Nicholas Cook |
Dimensions | 217 x 137 x 16mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Paperback |
Pages | 272 |
Edition | New Ed |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-816303-9 |
Barcode | 9780198163039 |
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LSN | 0-19-816303-7 |