Cook, Nicholas - Beyond the Score

In Beyond the Score: Music as Performance, author Nicholas Cook supplants the traditional musicological notion of music as writing, asserting instead that it is as performance that music is loved, understood, and consumed. This book reconceives music as an activity through which meaning is generated in real time, as Cook rethinks familiar assumptions and develops new approaches.

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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