"Altogether it is a book that should be required reading for any student of music, be he composer, performer, or theorist. It clears the air of many confused no

Lays the groundwork for exhaustive study of the basic problem of music theory and aesthetics, the relationship between pattern and meaning, and provides a basis

How human musical experience emerges from the audition of organized tones is a riddle of long standing. In The Musical Representation, Charles Nussbaum offers a

We talk not only of enjoying music, but of understanding it. Music is often taken to have expressive import--and in that sense to have meaning. But what does mu

This study presents the revolutionary thesis that English poetry and poetic theory were deflected from their richest line of development by the scientific ratio