Table of Contents

Contents
About the companion web site
List of figures
List of media examples
Introduction
1 Plato's curse
Sounded writing
Performative turns?
2 Page and stage
Theorist's analysis
Performer's analysis
Performance analysis
3 What the theorist heard
Affecting the sentiment
Spoken melody, or sung speech
Schenker vs. Schenker
4 Beyond structure
Structure in context
Mozart's miniature theatre
Rhetoric old and new
In time and of time
5 Close and distant listening
Reinventing style analysis
Forensics vs. musicology
Performing Poland
The savour of the Slav
6 Objective expression
Nature's nuance
Phrase arching in history
Phrase arching in culture
7 Playing somethin'
Referents and reference
The work as performance
8 Social scripts
An ethnographic turn
Sociality in sound
Performing complexity
9 The signifying body
31 August 1970, 3.30 am
The white man's black man
10 Everything counts
Pleasures of the body
Bodies in sound
Building bridges
11 The ghost in the machine
Music everywhere
Original and copy
Signifying sound
12 Beyond reproduction
The best seat in the hall
Acoustic choreography
Rethinking the concert
Making music together
List of references

About the Author

Nicholas Cook is the 1684 Professor of Music at the University of Cambridge. Author of Music: A Very Short Introduction, which has been translated into fifteen languages, his book The Schenker Project: Culture, Race, and Music Theory in Fin-de-siècle Vienna won the Society for Music Theory's 2010 Wallace Berry Award. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and Academia Europaea.