Decomposition A Music Manifesto

Name: Decomposition A Music Manifesto
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ISBN: 9780307911759

ISBN-10: 0307911756

ISBN-13: 9780307911759

Edition: 2014

Authors: Andrew Durkin

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A bracing, revisionary and provocative inquiry into music--from Beethoven to Duke Ellington, Conlon Nancarrow to Led Zeppelin--as a personal and cultural experience: how it is actually composed, often wrongfully perceived by critics and reviewers, and why we listen to it the way we do. Andrew Durkin, an experienced jazzman, is singular for his insistence on asking tough questions about the complexity of our presumptions about music and about listening, especially in the digital age. In this winning and lucid study, he explodes the age-old conception of musical composition as the work of individual genius, arguing instead that in both its composition and reception music is fundamentally a…

Book details

List price: $34.00
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 11/18/2014
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 400
Size: 6.58" wide x 9.59" long x 1.38" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English