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Musical Aesthetics
An Introduction to Concepts, Theories, and Functions
This book adopts an experiential approach to musical aesthetics, valuing intuitive, subconscious responses over intellectual analysis. Drawing from science, philosophy, and the humanities, it explores our deep attraction to music, offering user-friendly insights for all readers.
This book adopts an experiential approach to musical aesthetics, valuing intuitive, subconscious responses over intellectual analysis. Drawing from science, philosophy, and the humanities, it explores our deep attraction to music, offering user-friendly insights for all readers.
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Cinematic Schooling
Popular Learning at the Movies
Combs uses the metaphor of schooling to highlight the conviction that the widespread attention given to moving pictures in their various venues is not only diverting and entertaining, but also educative, although subtle and suggestive rather than explicit and didactic.
Combs uses the metaphor of schooling to highlight the conviction that the widespread attention given to moving pictures in their various venues is not only diverting and entertaining, but also educative, although subtle and suggestive rather than explicit and didactic.
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(Per)Forming Art
Performance as Research in Contemporary Artworks
Primarily engaging with music of the 20th and 21st centuries, this volume centres on performance as a compositional technique and a mode of work composition research. It addresses how performance and composition are reciprocally entwined and their role in creative practice today.
Primarily engaging with music of the 20th and 21st centuries, this volume centres on performance as a compositional technique and a mode of work composition research. It addresses how performance and composition are reciprocally entwined and their role in creative practice today.
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The Virtuoso as Subject
The Reception of Instrumental Virtuosity, c. 1815–c. 1850
Cvejić provides a novel interpretation of the sudden and steep decline of instrumental virtuosity in its critical reception during the nineteenth century, documenting it with a large number of examples from Europe’s leading music periodicals at the time.
Cvejić provides a novel interpretation of the sudden and steep decline of instrumental virtuosity in its critical reception during the nineteenth century, documenting it with a large number of examples from Europe’s leading music periodicals at the time.
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Improvisation
Between Technique and Spontaneity
This book explores improvisation—a creative process where shared practices meet spontaneity. The studies within contend that artistic improvisation holds the key to understanding the improvisation that pervades our professions and everyday experiences.
This book explores improvisation—a creative process where shared practices meet spontaneity. The studies within contend that artistic improvisation holds the key to understanding the improvisation that pervades our professions and everyday experiences.
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Drawing upon a wide range of scholarly enquiry, this collection provides a lively forum on aesthetics and experience in music performance. Papers engage in a scholarly dialogue on the technical, expressive and embodied aspects of performance.
Drawing upon a wide range of scholarly enquiry, this collection provides a lively forum on aesthetics and experience in music performance. Papers engage in a scholarly dialogue on the technical, expressive and embodied aspects of performance.
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