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The Musician as Interpreter PB

The Musician as Interpreter PB

Thom, Paul

Paperback

Series: Studies of the Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium

Music Instruction: GeneralMusic ReferenceMusic Theory

ISBN10: 0271031999
ISBN13: 9780271031996
Publisher: Penn St Univ Pr
Published: Nov 12 2007
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Among the many practices in which musicians engage are several that may be viewed as modes of interpretation, a kind of interpretation that Paul Thom calls performative to contrast it with another kind he calls critical. The difference is that the latter discusses a musical work; the former presents or enacts it. This book aims at making the case for understanding these activities of transcribing, varying, and realizing music as all forms of interpretation and, indeed, for seeing performative interpretation overall as a paradigm of what interpretation is. Thom devotes a chapter to each of the three types and, to make his philosophical points musically concrete, provides a wealth of illustrations ranging from classical music to jazz and involving performers as diverse as Toscanini and Billie Holiday.

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