Understanding Music: The Nature and Limits of Musical Cognition by translated by Richard Evans, Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht (Hardcover, 2010)

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ISBN-13: 9780754666127, 978-0754666127. In an age when our patterns of music consumption are changing rapidly, musical understanding has never been more relevant. Its author, Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht, was one of the most influential German musicologists of the twentieth century and yet he is almost unknown to English readers.

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In an age when our patterns of music consumption are changing rapidly, musical understanding has never been more relevant. Understanding Music provides readers with an ideal entry point to the topic, addressing 'both the music lover who has made listening to music an important part of his life and at the same time is willing to reflect on music and his encounter with it, as well as the more academically-minded enthusiast and the thoughtful expert.' Its author, Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht, was one of the most influential German musicologists of the twentieth century and yet he is almost unknown to English readers. His published work stretches from one end of the musicological spectrum to the other, with research on historical topics in early music, Bach, Beethoven reception, Mahler and music aesthetics all featuring. 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 different kinds of understanding are to be distinguished here? What other concepts are implicit in and related to the concept of understanding? How is the relationship between music and the listener who understands it to be articulated? What might correct understanding of music mean given music's multiplicity of meaning and effect? Where are the limits of understanding and what lies beyond? 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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PublisherTaylor & Francis LTD
ISBN-139780754666127
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Book TitleUnderstanding Music: the Nature and Limits of Musical Cognition
AuthorTranslated by Richard Evans, Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht
FormatHardcover
LanguageEnglish
TopicMusic
Publication Year2010
Number of Pages170 Pages

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Item Height234mm
Item Width156mm
Item Weight454g

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Title_AuthorTranslated by Richard Evans, Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom

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