Musicking : the meanings of performing and listening / Christopher Small.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Small, Christopher, 1927-2011.

Series:

Music/culture.

Music/culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.

Music.

Music--Performance--Psychological aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

1 recurso en linea (418 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hanover : University Press of New England, c1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Acclaimed scholar rethinks the nature and meaning of music.

Contents:

Cover; Half title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Prelude: Music and Musicking; 1. A Place for Hearing; 2. A Thoroughly Contemporary Affair; 3. Sharing with Strangers; Interlude 1 The Language of Gesture; 4. A Separate World; 5. A Humble Bow; 6. Summoning Up the Dead Composer; Interlude 2 The Mother of All the Arts; 7. Score and Parts; 8. Harmony, Heavenly Harmony; Interlude 3 Socially Constructed Meanings; 9. An Art of the Theater; 10. A Drama of Relationships; 11. A Vision of Order; 12. What's Really Going On Here?; 13. A Solitary Flute Player

Postlude: Was It a Good Performance and How Do You Know? Bibliography; Index; About the Author

Notes:

"Wesleyan University Press."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-11028-8

9786613110282

0-8195-7224-1

0-585-37102-4

OCLC:

767498404