Musical Practice as a Form of Life : : How Making Music Can be Meaningful and Real / / Eva-Maria Houben.

• VerfasserIn: Houben, Eva-Maria,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2019]; 2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Musik und Klangkultur ; 32
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Preface --; First Part --; 1. Access to the Topic --; 2. Musical Practice --; 3. Finding Speech --; Second Part --; 1. Keys --; 2. Many Performers --; 3. Solo --; 4. Duo --; 5. Trio --; 6. Quartet --; 7. Beyond Borders --; 8. In the “Ark of the Moment” --; List of Works --; Bibliography
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783839445730
• DOI: 10.1515/9783839445730?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Eva-Maria Houben.

How is musical practice connected with everyday life? Eva-Maria Houben shows that performing music as an activity - indeed, as playing - is a meaningful shift from an approach based on structural analysis. Musical practice, Eva-Maria Houben contends, can be understood as open and never finished. Such an emphasis on repetition offers freedom from perfection, productivity, and purpose, thus allowing meaning to unfold in specific situations, places, and relationships. Musical practice can become a form of life and a reality in its own right. The study includes musical examples from the 17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries as well as contemporary music.