Questions about Music

Name: Questions about Music
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ISBN: 9780393005714

ISBN-10: 0393005712

ISBN-13: 9780393005714

Edition: Reprint

Authors: Roger Sessions

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"We are asked (to put it politely) for whom we are writing..." From his perspective as a composer, Roger Sessions discusses some basic questions raised by the experience of music: what do we mean by "knowing" a piece of music, or "understanding" it? In what ways is the relationship between composer and listener different today from what it was in the past, and what demands can each make on the other?Music, like all nonverbal arts and certainly like mathematics and some branches of science, has its own dialectic, which is not that of words at all." Mr. Sessions warns against the pitfalls of metaphorical terms used to describe music, and explores the nature of musical form and…

Book details

List price: $18.95
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/17/1971
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 180
Size: 0.50" wide x 0.80" long x 0.10" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English