{"product_id":"music-imagination-and-culture","title":"Music, Imagination, and Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt is a common experience that words are inadequate for music; there seems always to be a disparity between how music is experienced, and how it is described or rationalized.  This book is a study of musical imagination.  Musicians imagine music by means of functional models which determine certain aspects of the music while leaving others open.  This means that there is inevitably a gap between the image and the experience that it models, and\n\u003cbr\u003ethis gap can be a source of compositional creativity.  Different musical cultures embody different ways of imagining sound as music, and thus every culture creates its own distinctive pattern of\n\u003cbr\u003ediscrepancies between image and experience - discrepancies which are reflected in theoretical thinking about music.  Drawing on psychological and philosophical materials as well as the analysis of specific musical examples, Nicholas Cook makes a clear distinction between the province of music theory and that of aesthetic criticism.  In doing so he affirms the importance of the `ordinary listener' in musical culture, and the validity of his or her experience of music.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44156981379310,"sku":"9780198163039","price":181.58,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9780198163039.jpg?v=1706234601","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/music-imagination-and-culture","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}