Interpreting Music
Lawrence Kramer
Abstract
This book is a comprehensive discussion on understanding musical meaning and performing music meaningfully—“interpreting music” in both senses of the term. Synthesizing and advancing two decades of work, it fundamentally rethinks the concepts of work, score, performance, performativity, interpretation, and meaning—even the very concept of music—while breaking down conventional wisdom and received ideas. The book argues that music, far from being closed to interpretation, is ideally open to it, and that musical interpretation is the paradigm of interpretation in general. It illustrates the many ... More
Keywords: musical meaning, work, score, performance, performativity, interpretation, concept, repertoire
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2010 | Print ISBN-13: 9780520267053 |
| Published to California Scholarship Online: May 2012 | DOI:10.1525/california/9780520267053.001.0001 |
