{"product_id":"interpreting-music-lawrence-kramer-9780520267053","title":"Interpreting Music","description":"\u003ci\u003eInterpreting Music\u003c\/i\u003e is a comprehensive essay on understanding musical meaning and performing music meaningfully-\"interpreting music\" in both senses of the term. Synthesizing and advancing two decades of highly influential work, Lawrence Kramer fundamentally rethinks the concepts of work, score, performance, performativity, interpretation, and meaning-even the very concept of music-while breaking down conventional wisdom and received ideas. Kramer argues that music, far from being closed to interpretation, is ideally open to it, and that musical interpretation is the paradigm of interpretation in general. The book illustrates the many dimensions of interpreting music through a series of case studies drawn from the classical repertoire, but its methods and principles carry over to other repertoires just as they carry beyond music by working \u003ci\u003ethrough\u003c\/i\u003e music to wider philosophical and cultural questions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lawrence Kramer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0520267052\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520267053\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/02\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.20w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2011","brand":"Lawrence Kramer","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48064999227647,"sku":"9780520267053","price":95.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b52c9e72-40fb-4fe4-8d8b-b7499ef1d942.jpg?v=1768672465","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/interpreting-music-lawrence-kramer-9780520267053","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}