Beyond the Score: Music as Performance

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Nicholas Cook (1684 Professorship, 1684 Professorship, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England)

Beyond the Score

Music as Performance

Nicholas Cook (1684 Professorship, 1684 Professorship, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England)

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Oxford University Press Inc
13 March 2014

Music; Theory of music & musicology; Music recording & reproduction; Cognition & cognitive psychology

In Beyond the Score: Music as Performance, author Nicholas Cook supplants the traditional musicological notion of music as writing, asserting instead that it is as performance that music is loved, understood, and consumed. This book reconceives music as an activity through which meaning is produced in real time, as Cook rethinks familiar assumptions and develops new approaches. Focusing primarily but not exclusively on the Western 'art' tradition, Cook explores perspectives that range from close listening to computational analysis, from ethnography to the study of recordings, and from the social relations constructed through performance to the performing (and listening) body. In doing so, he reveals not only that the notion of music as text has hampered academic understanding of music, but also that it has inhibited performance practices, placing them in a textualist straightjacket.

Beyond the Score has a strong historical emphasis, touching on broad developments in twentieth-century performance style and setting them into their larger cultural context. Cook also investigates the relationship between recordings and performance, arguing that we do not experience recordings as mere reproductions of a performance but as performances in their own right. Beyond the Score is a comprehensive exploration of new approaches and methods for the study of music as performance, and will be an invaluable addition to the libraries of music scholars - including musicologists, music theorists, and music cognition scholars - everywhere.

Publication of this book was supported by the AMS 75 PAYS Endowment of the American Musicological Society, funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

By: Nicholas Cook (1684 Professorship 1684 Professorship University of Cambridge Cambridge England)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 163mm, Width: 236mm, Spine: 41mm
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9780199357406
ISBN 10: 0199357404
Pages: 480
Publication Date: 13 March 2014
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Further / Higher Education , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Nicholas Cook is the 1684 Professor of Music at the University of Cambridge. Author of Music: A Very Short Introduction, which has been translated into fifteen languages, his book The Schenker Project: Culture, Race, and Music Theory in Fin-de-siecle Vienna won the Society for Music Theory's 2010 Wallace Berry Award. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and Academia Europaea.