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The Western musical tradition has produced not only music but also countless writings about music that remain in continuous - and enormously influential-dialogue with their subject. With sweeping scope and philosophical depth, this title traces the past millennium of this ongoing exchange.

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"This book is the crowning achievement of a first-rate scholar, drawing on decades of intensive as well as extensive expertise. The perspective it offers on Western art music is not just exceptionally well informed but also thoroughly original. Scholars in generations to come will find it an invaluable document of how scholars working at the end of the Western canonic paradigm viewed that paradigm." (Rose Rosengard Subotnik, Brown University)"

A Language of Its Own

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 12/08/2013
      ISBN13: 9780226425979, 978-0226425979
      ISBN10: 0226425975
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The Western musical tradition has produced not only music but also countless writings about music that remain in continuous - and enormously influential-dialogue with their subject. With sweeping scope and philosophical depth, this title traces the past millennium of this ongoing exchange.

      Trade Review
      "This book is the crowning achievement of a first-rate scholar, drawing on decades of intensive as well as extensive expertise. The perspective it offers on Western art music is not just exceptionally well informed but also thoroughly original. Scholars in generations to come will find it an invaluable document of how scholars working at the end of the Western canonic paradigm viewed that paradigm." (Rose Rosengard Subotnik, Brown University)"

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