Frontiers of Meaning

Three Informal Lectures on Music

Book cover: Frontiers of Meaning

Extent: 148, 148 pages

Publisher: Kahn & Averill

Subjects: Music & Performing Arts

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(December 1998)

ISBN: 9781871082654

Price: $24.95

In stock

What does it mean to understand music? What, if anything, does music mean? Composers, performers, listeners, and academics may answer these questions differently, but what sense of music do they share? When music seems unfamiliar or unlike anything we have heard before, we may say that we don’t like it. How is taking pleasure from music related to understanding it? This book explores these and other issues as they arise in various musical contexts.