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Musician as Interpreter

  • ISBN-13: 9780271031996
  • Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Paul Thom
  • Price: AUD $56.99
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  • Local release date: 13/02/2009
  • Format: Paperback 128 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Theory of music & musicology [AVA]
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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 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.


Contents

List of Musical Examples

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Transcriptions

2. Variations

3. Realizations

4. Interpretations

Bibliography

Index



“Written like a musical score, in a clear prose style, the book states its theme early, displays variations of the theme in chapters devoted to the three main forms of performative interpretation, and recapitulates that theme in a final chapter titled ‘Interpretation." Deeply informed by the author’s knowledge of music, the history of music, and theory, this volume is generously illustrated with examples of musical scores.”

—J.M. Carvalho, Choice

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