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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.
Price: $55.00
Pages: 240
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Publication Date:
04 February 2020
Trim Size: 8.86 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783837645736
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
»Auf gerade mal 224 Seiten ist ein beeindruckendes Kondensat an Gedanken und Ideen zur persönlichen sinnstiftenden Musikpraxis entstanden.«
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.
Frontmatter 1
Table of Contents 5
Preface 9
1. Access to the Topic 15
2. Musical Practice 35
3. Finding Speech 69
1. Keys 103
2. Many Performers 131
3. Solo 155
4. Duo 171
5. Trio 185
6. Quartet 197
7. Beyond Borders 207
8. In the "Ark of the Moment" 217
List of Works 219
Bibliography 225