The Concept of Music by Maconie
What is music for? How does it work? What can it teach us? Intuitively, we feel there must be answers to such questions, but they tend to be scattered throughout a wide range of different areas of study, from acoustics to music history, from psychology to composition. In this brilliant and thought-provoking book Robin Maconie seeks the answers to these and other fundamental questions about music, integrating music and appropriate scientific research in a new evaluation of his topic. In so doing he argues passionately for a reappraisal of music, not as mere entertainment, but as something basic to our experience of listening and communicating sound, and an art which has exerted a profound influence on society.
Enormously well-informed about the practical realities of acoustics, the physics of sound, the history and architecture of music rooms, the design of instruments * Financial Times *
Composer and writer on music. Author of The Works of Karlheinz Stockhausen (OUP, 1990)
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| ISBN 13 | 9780198163886 |
| ISBN 10 | 0198163886 |
| Title | The Concept of Music |
| Author | Maconie |
| Series | Clarendon Paperbacks Ser |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 1993-10-07 |
| Number of pages | 198 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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