Musical Practice as a Form of Life

How Making Music Can be Meaningful and Real

von Eva-Maria Houben

240 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: Musik und Klangkultur
• Themen: Kunst Darstellende Künste Tanz
• ISBN: 9783837645736
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 04.09.2019
• Größe: 22.5 x 14.8 cm
• Verlag: transcript