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Music or The Vocabulary of Music

Piers Hellawell · Gresham College

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About

This year's keynote talk explores the distinction between music itself and its surface vocabulary. Is there such a thing as music? Are some musical styles more, and some less, substantial? If so, is contemporary music any more than an amalgam of stylistic practices? The public's rejection of modernism suggests that content is not enough, or maybe that we can only digest art swathed in pretty wrapping.

The talk

  1. Music or The Vocabulary of Music 2002-10-29 · YouTube

Credits and licence

Institution
Gresham College
Speaker
Piers Hellawell
Year
2002
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Music
Source
Gresham College
Licence
Educational use (Gresham College's terms), as Gresham College states it. Gresham College's terms
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