Improvisation of Musical Dialogue A Phenomenology of Music

Name: Improvisation of Musical Dialogue A Phenomenology of Music
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ISBN: 9780521009324

ISBN-10: 0521009324

ISBN-13: 9780521009324

Edition: 2003

Authors: Bruce Ellis Benson

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This book is an important contribution to the philosophy of music. Whereas most books in this field focus on the creation and reproduction of music, Bruce Benson's concern is the phenomenology of music making as an activity. He offers the radical thesis that it is improvisation that is primary in the moment of music making. Succinct and lucid, the book brings together a wide range of musical examples from classical music, jazz, early music and other genres. It offers a rich tapestry incorporating both analytic and continental philosophy, musicology and performance-practice issues. It will be a provocative read for philosophers of art and musicologists and, because it eschews technicality,…

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List price: $27.99
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 2/27/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 216
Size: 5.47" wide x 8.54" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Kevin Vanhoozer is Research Professor of Systematic Theology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School.James K. A. Smith is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of Seminars in Christian Scholarship at Calvin College.Bruce Ellis Benson is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Wheaton College.




Between composition and performance



Composing: from Ursprung to Fassung letzter Hand



Performing: the improvisation of preservation



The ergon within energeia



The ethics of musical dialogue