Musical Meaning Toward a Critical History
- List Price: $55.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Univ of California Pr
- Publish date: 12/01/2001
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"This book is vintage Kramer, full of the verbal pleasures, imaginative twists, and quotable quotes that characterize his writing, together with a truly Schenker-like ability to slip instantaneously from the smallest details to the largest cultural or even political issues. Indeed Musical Meaning reaches new heights of discursive playfulness, especially in the final chapter, built round two intercalated texts . . . Kramer doesn't call his book a history of musical meaning: the subtitle is Toward a Critical History . And it is certainly a step in that direction: anybody contemplating a real history of musical meaning-which would certainly be a giant leap for musicology-would undoubtedly need to read Kramer's book first."
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