The Concept of Music

By Robin Maconie and Maconie

Book Overview

What is music for? How does it work? What can it teach us? Intuitively, we feel there must be answers to such questions, but they tend to be scattered throughout a wide range of different areas of study, from acoustics to music history, from psychology to composition. In this brilliant and thought-provoking book, Maconie seeks the answers to these and other fundamental questions about music, integrating music and appropriate scientific research in a new evaluation of his topic. In so doing, he argues passionately for a reappraisal of music, not as mere entertainment, but as something basic to our experience of listening and communicating in sound, and an art which has exerted a profound influence on society.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198163886
• ISBN13: 9780198163886
• Release Date: November 1993
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Yikes

It's quite scary, you know, that there are so many things that we don't understand that happen when we pop that cd in player. Fortunately, through the words of Robin MacOnie, there is hope in educating the populace of the subliminal happenings of the music industry today. Anybody who reads this book will be infinitely more educated about a seemingly simple past-time. Definitely worth the time to read.