The Musical Experience proposes a new concept - musical experience - as the most effective framework for navigating the shifting terrain of educational policy a
One of America's foremost contemporary composers, professor of music at the University of California, Roger Sessions here discusses the musical experience of th
What makes a musical work profound? What is it about pure instrumental music that the listener finds attractive and rewarding? In addressing these questions, Pe
Songprints, the first book-length exploration of the musical lives of Native American women, describes a century of cultural change and constancy among the Shos
On the Nature of Musical Experience discusses the shared beliefs of twenty prominent aestheticians, composers, theorists, and educators, and identifies fourteen