Beyond Score Music as Performance C

by Nicholas Cook

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 produced in real time, as Cook rethinks familiar assumptions and develops new approaches. Focusing primarily but not exclusively on the Western 'art' tradition,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199357404
• ISBN13: 9780199357406
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.4" x 9.3"