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The Resource The frontiers of meaning : three informal lectures on music, Charles Rosen
The frontiers of meaning : three informal lectures on music, Charles Rosen
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- Summary
- What does it mean to understand music? What, if anything, does music mean? Composers, performers, listeners, and scholars may answer these questions differently, but what sense of music do they share? When music seems unfamiliar or unlike anything we have heard before, we say we don't "like" it. How is taking pleasure from music related to understanding it? In this lucid and entertaining book, the noted pianist Charles Rosen explores these and other issues as they arise in various musical contexts. Performers' interpretations may be filled with errors, after all, that then become part of a tradition; a composer's work may be variously assessed by his contemporaries (Mr. Rosen gives us an eye-opening account of how Beethoven's towering reputation was established so early); and musical analysis can mislead as well as deepen our understanding of a composition's splendor. In The Frontiers of Meaning Charles Rosen brings to a bold, inspiring study of music - as text, as performance, as listening experience - the insight and bravura elegance for which his own work as a practicing musician is justly famous
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- xii, 145 pages
- Contents
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- 1. The Frontiers of Nonsense
- 2. How to Become Immortal
- 3. Explaining the Obvious
- Isbn
- 9780809072545
- Label
- The frontiers of meaning : three informal lectures on music
- Title
- The frontiers of meaning
- Title remainder
- three informal lectures on music
- Statement of responsibility
- Charles Rosen
- Subject
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- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Music
- Music -- History and criticism
- Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics
- Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics
- Music | History and criticism
- Music | Philosophy and aesthetics
- Musikhören
- Musikphilosophie
- Musikästhetik
- Musique -- Histoire et critique
- Musique -- Philosophie et esthétique
- Analyse musicale
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- What does it mean to understand music? What, if anything, does music mean? Composers, performers, listeners, and scholars may answer these questions differently, but what sense of music do they share? When music seems unfamiliar or unlike anything we have heard before, we say we don't "like" it. How is taking pleasure from music related to understanding it? In this lucid and entertaining book, the noted pianist Charles Rosen explores these and other issues as they arise in various musical contexts. Performers' interpretations may be filled with errors, after all, that then become part of a tradition; a composer's work may be variously assessed by his contemporaries (Mr. Rosen gives us an eye-opening account of how Beethoven's towering reputation was established so early); and musical analysis can mislead as well as deepen our understanding of a composition's splendor. In The Frontiers of Meaning Charles Rosen brings to a bold, inspiring study of music - as text, as performance, as listening experience - the insight and bravura elegance for which his own work as a practicing musician is justly famous
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1927-2012
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Rosen, Charles
- Illustrations
- music
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- ML3845
- LC item number
- .R68 1994
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Music
- Music
- Musique
- Musique
- Analyse musicale
- Music
- Music
- Musikhören
- Musikästhetik
- Musikphilosophie
- Label
- The frontiers of meaning : three informal lectures on music, Charles Rosen
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 127-135) and index
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- Carrier MARC source
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- Content type MARC source
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- Contents
- 1. The Frontiers of Nonsense -- 2. How to Become Immortal -- 3. Explaining the Obvious
- Dimensions
- 21 cm.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- xii, 145 pages
- Isbn
- 9780809072545
- Lccn
- 93039614
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- music
- System control number
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- (OCoLC)29024193
- (OCoLC)ocm29024193
- Label
- The frontiers of meaning : three informal lectures on music, Charles Rosen
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 127-135) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 1. The Frontiers of Nonsense -- 2. How to Become Immortal -- 3. Explaining the Obvious
- Dimensions
- 21 cm.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- xii, 145 pages
- Isbn
- 9780809072545
- Lccn
- 93039614
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- music
- System control number
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- (OCoLC)29024193
- (OCoLC)ocm29024193
Subject
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Music
- Music -- History and criticism
- Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics
- Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics
- Music | History and criticism
- Music | Philosophy and aesthetics
- Musikhören
- Musikphilosophie
- Musikästhetik
- Musique -- Histoire et critique
- Musique -- Philosophie et esthétique
- Analyse musicale
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