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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      14 January 2010
      27 February 2003
      ISBN:
      9780511615924
      9780521810937
      9780521009324
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511615924
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.353kg, 216 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.259kg, 216 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Music, Ethics, Philosophy, Music Performance
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    This book is an important contribution to the philosophy of music. Whereas most books in this field focus on the creation and reproduction of music, Bruce Benson's concern is the phenomenology of music making as an activity. He offers the radical thesis that it is improvisation that is primary in the moment of music making. Succinct and lucid, the book brings together a wide range of musical examples from classical music, jazz, early music and other genres. It offers a rich tapestry incorporating both analytic and continental philosophy, musicology and performance-practice issues. It will be a provocative read for philosophers of art and musicologists and, because it eschews technicality, should appeal to general readers, especially those who perform.

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    ‘… a timely and I believe much-needed reorientation of attention … it will be found engaging reading by philosophers, musicians, and conceptually adventurous listeners.’

    Gary Hagsberg - Bard College

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