The Thought of Music / Lawrence Kramer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kramer, Lawrence, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Knowledge, Theory of.

Musicology--History and criticism.

Musicology.

Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.

Music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (264 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What, exactly, is knowledge of music? And what does it tell us about humanistic knowledge in general? The Thought of Music grapples directly with these fundamental questions-questions especially compelling at a time when humanistic knowledge is enmeshed in debates about its character and future. In this third volume in a trilogy on musical understanding that includes Interpreting Music and Expression and Truth, Lawrence Kramer seeks answers in both thought about music and thought in music-thinking in tones. He skillfully assesses musical scholarship in the aftermath of critical musicology and musical hermeneutics and in view of more recent concerns with embodiment, affect, and performance. This authoritative and timely work challenges the prevailing conceptions of every topic it addresses: language, context, and culture; pleasure and performance; and, through music, the foundations of understanding in the humanities.The publisher gratefully acknowledges the Joseph Kerman Endowment of the American Musicological Society, funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface: The Thought of Music

Acknowledgments

1. Music and the Forms of Th ought

2. Speaking of Music: In Search of an Idiom

3. The Ineff able and How (Not) to Say It

4. Pleasure and Valuation

5. The Cultural Field: Beyond Context

6. Virtuosity, Reading, Authorship: A Genealogy

7. The Newer Musicology? Context, Performance, and the Musical Work

Postscript: Imagining the Score

Notes

Index of Names

Index of Concepts

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780520288805

0520288807

9780520963627

0520963628

OCLC:

932625455