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Approaches to Meaning in Music.(Book review)
[??] Approaches to Meaning in Music, edited by Byron Almen and Edward Pearsall. Indiana University Press (www.iupress.indiana.edu/catalog/; (800) 842-6796), 2007. 280 pp. $49.95.
Approaches to Meaning in Music is a book of great importance. It is not easy reading, nor are the intentions of its seven contributors to entertain the reader. Rather, the language is often complex and the ideas conveyed rewarding to the reader only after some serious study and thinking.
A symposium with eight separate chapters, the central theme is that of exploring the problems and issues dealing with meaning in music. Summarizing the concepts of these chapters in a few words, let me cite but a few examples illustrative of the variations on this central theme. Music exists only through the significance we give it. Meaning in music appears only through the processes used to construct it and musical significance is emergent, contingent on researchers and their methods. For musical meaning to emerge, it must demystify the mysterious without robbing it of its mystery.
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