The Frontiers of Meaning by Charles Rosen

The Frontiers of Meaning by Charles Rosen

Regular price
Checking stock...
Regular price
Checking stock...
Summary

Originally the content of three lectures, this work offers a bold and inspiring study of music, as text, as performance, and as a listening experience.

The feel-good place to buy books
  • Free US shipping over $15
  • Buying preloved emits 41% less CO2 than new
  • Millions of affordable books
  • Give your books a new home - sell them back to us!

The Frontiers of Meaning by Charles Rosen

What does it mean to understand music? What, if anything, does music mean? Composers, performers, listeners, and academics may answer these questions differently, but what sense of music do they share? When music seems unfamiliar or unlike anything we have heard before, we may say that we don't like it. How is taking pleasure from music related to understanding it? This book explores these and other issues as they arise in various musical contexts.
Charles Rosen is a pianist whose celebrated concert career spans many decades and continents, and whose noatble recordings over a wide range of piano repertory have been awarded many accolades. He was the Charles Eliot Norton Professor at Harvard University and a professor of music and social thought at the University of Chicago.
SKU Unavailable
ISBN 13 9781871082654
ISBN 10 187108265X
Title The Frontiers of Meaning
Author Charles Rosen
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Kahn & Averill
Year published 2006-01-01
Number of pages 148
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.