Music, Imagination & Culture
- Type:
- boek
- Titel:
- Music, Imagination & Culture
- Jaar:
- 1992
- Taal:
- Engels
- Uitgever:
- Oxford Clarendon 1992
- Plaatsnummer:
- ORPH.AES COOK (Orpheus Instituut)
- ISBN:
- 9780198163039
- Paginering:
- 265 pages
- Samenvatting:
- It is a common experience that words are inadequate for music; there seems always to be a disparity between how music is experienced, and how it is described or rationalized. This book is a study of musical imagination. Musicians imagine music by means of functional models which determine certain aspects of the music while leaving others open. This means that there is inevitably a gap between the image and the experience that it models, and this gap can be a source of compositional creativity. Different musical cultures embody different ways of imagining sound as music, and thus every culture creates its own distinctive pattern of discrepancies between image and experience - discrepancies which are reflected in theoretical thinking about music. Drawing on psychological and philosophical materials as well as the analysis of specific musical examples, Nicholas Cook makes a clear distinction between the province of music theory and that of aesthetic criticism. In doing so he affirms the importance of the `ordinary listener' in musical culture, and the validity of his or her experience of music.
- Permalink:
- https://cageweb.be/catalog/orp01:000017320
