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Musical Practice as a Form of Life How Making Music Can be Meaningful and Real Eva-Maria Houben
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Houben, Eva-Maria <p>Eva-Maria Houben, TU Dortmund, Deutschland</p>, Author.
- Series:
- Musik und Klangkultur ; Volume 32.
- Musik und Klangkultur
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Performativity.
- Music Performance.
- Corporeality.
- Metaphor.
- Musical Analysis.
- Music.
- Culture.
- Musicology.
- Cultural Studies.
- Local Subjects:
- Performativity.
- Music Performance.
- Corporeality.
- Metaphor.
- Musical Analysis.
- Music.
- Culture.
- Musicology.
- Cultural Studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (241 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Houben, Musical Practice as a Form of Life How Making Music Can be Meaningful and Real
- Place of Publication:
- Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2019
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Biography/History:
- Eva-Maria Houben (Prof. Dr. phil.), born in 1955, teaches musicology with a focus on musical theory at TU Dortmund, Germany. She is also a composer, organist and pianist.
- Summary:
- How is musical practice connected with everyday life? Eva-Maria Houben shows that performing music as an activity – indeed, as playing – is a meaningful shift from an approach based on structural analysis. Musical practice, Eva-Maria Houben contends, can be understood as open and never finished. Such an emphasis on repetition offers freedom from perfection, productivity, and purpose, thus allowing meaning to unfold in specific situations, places, and relationships. Musical practice can become a form of life and a reality in its own right. The study includes musical examples from the 17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries as well as contemporary music.
- »Auf gerade mal 224 Seiten ist ein beeindruckendes Kondensat an Gedanken und Ideen zur persönlichen sinnstiftenden Musikpraxis entstanden.«
- Besprochen in:The Wire, 430 (2019), Tim Rutherford-Johnson
- »At 224 pages is an impressive condensate of thoughts and ideas for a personal, meaningful music practice.«
- Contents:
- Frontmatter 1 Table of Contents 5 Preface 9 1. Access to the Topic 15 2. Musical Practice 35 3. Finding Speech 69 1. Keys 103 2. Many Performers 131 3. Solo 155 4. Duo 171 5. Trio 185 6. Quartet 197 7. Beyond Borders 207 8. In the "Ark of the Moment" 217 List of Works 219 Bibliography 225
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9783839445730
- 3839445736
- OCLC:
- 1121052443
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