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

Houben, Eva-Maria

Musical Practice as a Form of Life : How Making Music Can be Meaningful and Real / Eva-Maria Houben. - 1 online resource (240 p.) - Musik und Klangkultur ; 32 .

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- First Part -- 1. Access to the Topic -- 2. Musical Practice -- 3. Finding Speech -- Second Part -- 1. Keys -- 2. Many Performers -- 3. Solo -- 4. Duo -- 5. Trio -- 6. Quartet -- 7. Beyond Borders -- 8. In the “Ark of the Moment” -- List of Works -- Bibliography

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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.


Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.


In English.

9783839445730

10.1515/9783839445730 doi

2019436494


Experience.
Learning.
Music--Instruction and study.
Music--Performance--Philosophy and aesthetics.
Music--Performance.
Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.
Music--Social aspects.
Music.
Musical analysis.
Reality.
Thought and thinking--Study and teaching.
Corporeality.
Cultural Studies.
Culture.
Metaphor.
Music Performance.
Music.
Musical Analysis.
Musicology.
MUSIC / History & Criticism.

Corporeality. Cultural Studies. Culture. Metaphor. Music Performance. Music. Musical Analysis. Musicology.

ML3800 / .H747 2019 ML457 / .H683 2019

781.43