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Musical Practice as a Form of Life: How Making Music Can be Meaningful and Real (Music and Sound Culture) - Softcover

Eva-Maria Houben

 
9783837645736: Musical Practice as a Form of Life: How Making Music Can be Meaningful and Real (Music and Sound Culture)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 3837645738 ISBN 13: 9783837645736
Publisher: Transcript Verlag, 2019

Synopsis

How is musical practice connected with everyday life? Eva-Maria Houben shows that performing music as an activity - indeed, as playing - is a meaningful shift from an approach based on structural analysis. Musical practice, Eva-Maria Houben contends, can be understood as open and never finished. Such an emphasis on repetition offers freedom from perfection, productivity, and purpose, thus allowing meaning to unfold in specific situations, places, and relationships. Musical practice can become a form of life and a reality in its own right. The study includes musical examples from the 17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries as well as contemporary music.

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About the Author

Eva-Maria Houben (Prof. Dr. phil.), born in 1955, teaches musicology with a focus on musical theory at TU Dortmund, Germany. She is also a composer, organist and pianist.

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Publisher
Transcript Verlag
Publication date
2019
Language
English
ISBN 10 
3837645738
ISBN 13 
9783837645736
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
240