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Understanding Music: The Nature and Limits of Musical Cognition

Understanding Music: The Nature and Limits of Musical Cognition

Hardcover

Music Instruction: General

ISBN10: 0754666123
ISBN13: 9780754666127
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jan 28 2010
Pages: 170
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht was one of the most influential German musicologists of the twentieth century and yet he is almost unknown to English readers. Understanding Music summarizes Eggebrecht's thoughts on the relationship between music and cognition. As he says in his preface, the purpose of his book is 'to direct the reader towards the fundamental issues and processes implied in understanding music. What does understanding mean when applied to music? How is the process to be described?...What role do language and history play?'. Eggebrecht's answers to these and other questions amount to a compelling account of how the mind grasps the sounds of music in themselves and what other factors contribute to music's meaning so much to us as listeners.

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