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Christopher Small G.. Musicking
Musicking
Contents
Prelude. Music and Musicking
CHAPTER 1. A Place for Hearing
CHAPTER 2. A Thoroughly Contemporary Affair
CHAPTER 3. Sharing with Strangers
Interlude 1. The Language of Gesture
CHAPTER 4. A Separate World
CHAPTER 5. A Humble Bow
CHAPTER 6. Summoning Up the Dead Composer
Interlude 2. The Mother of All the Arts
CHAPTER 7. Score and Parts
CHAPTER 8. Harmony, Heavenly Harmony
Interlude 3. Socially Constructed Meanings
CHAPTER 9. An Art of the Theater
CHAPTER 10. A Drama of Relationships
CHAPTER 11. A Vision of Order
CHAPTER 12. What’s Really Going On Here?
CHAPTER 13. A Solitary Flute Player
Postlude. Was It a Good Performance. and How Do You Know?
Bibliography
Index
MUSIC / CULTURE
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Musicking
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It will become clear as we go along how useful this verb—and especially its gerund—is (the added k is not just a caprice but has historical antecedents), and I shall use it from now on as if it were the proper English language verb that I hope it will become.
I have to make two things clear. The first is that to pay attention in any way to a musical performance, including a recorded performance, even to Muzak in an elevator, is to music. The second is related but needs to be stated separately: the verb to music is not concerned with valuation. It is descriptive, not prescriptive. It covers all participation in a musical performance, whether it takes place actively or passively, whether we like the way it happens or whether we do not, whether we consider it it interesting or boring, constructive or destructive, sympathetic or antipathetic. The word will remain useful only for so long as we keep our own value judgments clear of it. Value-laden uses that I have heard, such as “Everyone ought to music” or “You can’t call listening to a Walkman musicking,” distort its meaning, weaken its usefulness as an investigative tool, and plunge us back into futile arguments about what music or musicking is. Value judgments come later, if they come at all.
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