Music, performance, meaning : selected essays / Nicholas Cook.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cook, Nicholas, 1950-

Series:

Ashgate contemporary thinkers on critical musicology

Ashgate contemporary thinkers on critical musicology series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.

Music.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 349 pages : illustrations, music ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2007]

Contents:

Musical form and the listener (1987)

The perception of large-scale tonal closure (1987)

Beethoven's unfinished piano concerto : a case of double vision? (1989)

Schenker's theory of music as ethics (1989)

The editor and the virtuoso, or Schenker vs. Bülow (1991)

Heinrich Schenker, polemicist : a reading of the Ninth Symphony monograph (1995)

Music minus one : rock, theory, and performance (1995-96)

The domestic Gesamtkunstwerk, or record sleeves and reception (1998)

At the borders of musical identity : Schenker, Corelli and the graces (1999)

Theorizing musical meaning (2001)

Form and syntax : a tale of two terms (2002)

The other Beethoven : heroism, the canon, and the works of 1813-14 (2003)

Performance writ large : desultory remarks on furnishing the abode of the retired scholar (2003)

In praise of symbolic poverty (2004)

Writing on music or axes to grind : road rage and musical community (2003)

Making music together, or improvisation and its others (2004).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780754627180

0754627187

OCLC:

122973627