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Paperback Conventional Wisdom: The Content of Musical Form Book

ISBN: 0520232089

ISBN13: 9780520232082

Conventional Wisdom: The Content of Musical Form

(Part of the Ernest Bloch Lectures Series)

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With her usual combination of erudition, innovation, and spirited prose, Susan McClary reexamines the concept of musical convention in this fast-moving and refreshingly accessible book. Exploring the ways that shared musical practices transmit social knowledge, Conventional Wisdom offers an account of our own cultural moment in terms of two dominant traditions: tonality and blues.McClary looks at musical history from new and unexpected angles...

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