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Music in the Moment
Language: en
Pages: 208
Authors: Jerrold Levinson
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

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"Jerrold Levinson's new book, Music in the Moment, makes a major contribution to the now flourishing field of philosophy of music. He has a daring thesis about
Music in the Moment
Language: en
Pages: 200
Authors: Jerrold Levinson
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-09-05 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

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What is required for a listener to understand a piece of music? Does aural understanding depend upon reflective awareness of musical architecture or large-scale
The Melodramatic Moment
Language: en
Pages: 295
Authors: Katherine Hambridge
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-07-16 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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We seem to see melodrama everywhere we look—from the soliloquies of devastation in a Dickens novel to the abject monstrosity of Frankenstein’s creation, and
Dreams of Difference, Songs of the Same
Language: en
Pages: 245
Authors: Amy Herzog
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010 - Publisher: U of Minnesota Press

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Musical spectacles are excessive and abstract, reconfiguring time and space and creating intense bodily responses. Amy Herzog's engaging work examines those ins
The Power of Sound
Language: en
Pages: 586
Authors: Edmund Gurney
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 1880 - Publisher: London : Smith, Elder

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