Eva-Maria Houben 
Musical Practice as a Form of Life [PDF ebook] 
How Making Music Can be Meaningful and Real

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How is musical practice connected with everyday life? Eva-Maria Houben shows that performing music as an activity – indeed, as playing – is a meaningful shift from an approach based on structural analysis. Musical practice, Eva-Maria Houben contends, can be understood as open and never finished. Such an emphasis on repetition offers freedom from perfection, productivity, and purpose, thus allowing meaning to unfold in specific situations, places, and relationships. Musical practice can become a form of life and a reality in its own right. The study includes musical examples from the 17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries as well as contemporary music.

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Eva-Maria Houben (Prof. Dr. phil.), born in 1955, teaches musicology with a focus on musical theory at TU Dortmund, Germany. She is also a composer, organist and pianist.

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Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 240 ● ISBN 9783839445730 ● File size 15.4 MB ● Publisher transcript Verlag ● City Bielefeld ● Country DE ● Published 2019 ● Edition 1 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 7077098 ● Copy protection Social DRM

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