Levinson rejects the notion that keeping music's large-scale form before the mind is somehow essential to fundamental understanding of it. As evidence, he describes in detail the experience of listening to a wide range of music. He defends, with some qualifications, the views of nineteenth-century musician and psychologist Edmund Gurney, author of The Power of Sound, who argued that musical comprehension requires only attention to the evolution of music from moment to moment.
Music theory standardly misapprehends the experience and mindset of most who know and love classical music, concludes Levinson. His book is a defense of the passionate and attentive, though architectonically unconcerned, music listener.
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Levinson rejects the notion that keeping music's large-scale form before the mind is somehow essential to fundamental understanding of it. As evidence, he describes in detail the experience of listening to a wide range of music. He defends, with some qualifications, the views of nineteenth-century musician and psychologist Edmund Gurney, author of The Power of Sound, who argued that musical comprehension requires only attention to the evolution of music from moment to moment.
Music theory standardly misapprehends the experience and mindset of most who know and love classical music, concludes Levinson. His book is a defense of the passionate and attentive, though architectonically unconcerned, music listener.
Imprint | Cornell University Press |
Country of origin | United States |
Release date | March 1998 |
Availability | Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days |
First published | April 1998 |
Authors | Jerrold Levinson |
Dimensions | 229 x 152 x 18mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Hardcover |
Pages | 196 |
Edition | New |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-8014-3129-6 |
Barcode | 9780801431296 |
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LSN | 0-8014-3129-8 |