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Sudden Music

Paperback • 2016 • 1. edition

Sudden Music

By David Rothenberg

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About the book

Music, said Zen patriarch Hui Neng, ""is a means of rapid transformation."" It takes us home to a natural world that functions outside of logic, where harmony and dissonance, tension and release work in surprising ways. Weaving memoir, travelogue, and philosophical reflection, Sudden Music presents a musical way of knowing that can closely engage us with the world and open us to its spontaneity.Improvisation is everywhere, says David Rothenberg, and his book is a testament to its creative, surpr...Show more

Theory of music and musicology

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9780820349121

Publisher

University of Georgia Press

Published year

2016

Language

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1

Original title

Sudden Music

Format

Paperback

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