Table of Contents

Contents

List of Musical Examples

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Transcriptions

2. Variations

3. Realizations

4. Interpretations

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Paul Thom is Professor of Philosophy and Executive Dean of Arts at Southern Cross University in New South Wales, Australia.

Reviews

"Paul Thom's latest book is a valuable and illuminating contribution to the philosophy of music. It focuses on a number of musical activities not often accorded sufficient attention by philosophers, such as the transcribing of works, the writing of variations, and the annotating of scores. Thom makes a persuasive case that activities of that sort, and even more so, that of musical performing, are modes of musical interpretation, and thus that musical interpretation is hardly the province of criticism alone, being instead something that pervades musical practice." - Jerrold Levinson, University of Maryland"