| Music, Imagination, and Culture Contributor(s): Cook, Nicholas (Author) |
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ISBN: 0198163037 ISBN-13: 9780198163039 Publisher: Clarendon Press OUR PRICE: $114.00 Product Type: Paperback Published: February 1992 Annotation: Musicians imagine music by means of functional models which determine certain aspects of the music while leaving others open. This gap between image and the experience it models offers a source of compositional creativity; different musical cultures embody different ways of imagining sound as music. Drawing on psychological and philosophical materials as well as the analysis of specific musical examples, Cook here defines the difference between music theory and aesthetic criticism, and affirms the importance of the "ordinary listener" in musical culture. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Music | Instruction & Study - Theory - Philosophy | Aesthetics |
| Dewey: 781.11 |
| Lexile Measure: 1510 |
| Physical Information: 0.64" H x 5.4" W x 8.54" (0.78 lbs) 272 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Musicians imagine music by means of functional models which determine certain aspects of the music while leaving others open. This gap between image and the experience it models offers a source of compositional creativity; different musical cultures embody different ways of imagining sound as music. Drawing on psychological and philosophical materials as well as the analysis of specific musical examples, Cook here defines the difference between music theory and aesthetic criticism, and affirms the importance of the ordinary listener in musical culture. |