Interpreting Music

by Lawrence Kramer

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520267060
• ISBN13: 9780520267060
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.9"