The Musician as Interpreter

Paul Thom (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

128 Seiten

2007
Pennsylvania State University Press (Verlag)
978-0-271-03198-9 (ISBN)

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Among the many practices in which musicians engage are several that may be viewed as modes of interpretation, a kind of interpretation that the author calls "performative". This book aims at making the case for understanding these activities of transcribing, varying, and realizing music as all forms of interpretation.

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.

Paul Thom is Professor of Philosophy and Executive Dean of Arts at Southern Cross University in New South Wales, Australia.

Contents

List of Musical Examples

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Transcriptions

2. Variations

3. Realizations

4. Interpretations

Bibliography

Index

Reihe/Serie	Studies of the Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium
Zusatzinfo	32 Halftones, black and white
Verlagsort	Pennsylvania
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	340 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
ISBN-10	0-271-03198-0 / 0271031980
ISBN-13	978-0-271-03198-9 / 9780271031989
Zustand	Neuware