Musical Practice as a Form of Life: How Making Music Can Be Meaningful and Real by Houben, Eva-Maria

Musical Practice as a Form of Life: How Making Music Can Be Meaningful and Real (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783837645736)

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Musical Practice as a Form of Life: How Making Music Can Be Meaningful and Real by Houben, Eva-Maria

Musical Practice as a Form of Life: How Making Music Can Be Meaningful and Real

$55.00
Musical Practice as a Form of Life: How Making Music Can Be Meaningful and Real by Houben, Eva-Maria

Musical Practice as a Form of Life: How Making Music Can Be Meaningful and Real

$55.00
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Eva-Maria Houben
ISBN-10: 3837645738
ISBN-13: 9783837645736
Publisher: Transcript Publishing
Language: English
Published: 02/04/2020
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.70w x 0.70d
By Eva-Maria Houben
By Eva-Maria Houben
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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.

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