Contents
List of Musical Examples
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Transcriptions
2. Variations
3. Realizations
4. Interpretations
Bibliography
Index
Paul Thom is Professor of Philosophy and Executive Dean of Arts at Southern Cross University in New South Wales, Australia.
“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
“Written like a musical score, in a clear prose style, the book
states its theme early, displays variations of the theme in
chapters devoted to the three main forms of performative
interpretation, and recapitulates that theme in a final chapter
titled ‘Interpretation." Deeply informed by the author’s knowledge
of music, the history of music, and theory, this volume is
generously illustrated with examples of musical scores.”—J.M.
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