The Language of Music

The Language of Music is a 1959 book about music by the critic and musician Deryck Cooke.

The Language of Music
Cover of the 1960 Oxford University Press edition
AuthorDeryck Cooke
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
SubjectMusic
Published1959
Media typePrint (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages304 (1990 Clarendon Press edition)
ISBN978-0198161806
Not to be confused with The Language of Music (theory book).

Reception

Robert M. Wallace reviewed The Language of Music in The Nation.[1]

The Language of Music is an often cited representative of the expressionist theory of art.[2] No systematic experimental study of Cooke's theory has emerged relating it to musical education, but one pilot study showed that for 22 non-musician students, his characterizations of musical phrases were not experienced.[3] The philosopher Douglas Hofstadter writes that The Language of Music is, "A valuable start down what is sure to be a long hard road to understanding music and the human mind."[4]

gollark: Well, things which can cooperate with other things in common situations attain more points.
gollark: Mostly.
gollark: It is, yes.
gollark: The iterated version has them do it repeatedly, with knowledge of each other's previous moves.
gollark: Essentially, each round, each player either cooperates or defects.If both cooperate, they attain 2 points. If one cooperates and the other defects, the defector attains 3 points and the cooperator attains 0 points. If both defect, they attain 1 point. Different versions use different actual numbers but the concept is the same if the relative orderings are preserved.

References
  1. Wallace 1962, pp. 480–482.
  2. Sharpe 1995, p. 599.
  3. Spender 2004, p. 631.
  4. Hofstadter 1980, p. 747.

Bibliography
Books
  • Hofstadter, Douglas (1980). Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid. London: Penguin Books. ISBN 0-14-005579-7.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Sharpe, Robert (1995). "Music". In Honderich, Ted (ed.). The Oxford Companion to Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-866132-0.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Spender, Natasha (2004). "Music, psychology of". In Gregory, Richard L. (ed.). The Oxford Companion to the Mind, Second Edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-866224-6.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
Journals
  • Wallace, Robert M. (1962). "Second Impressions". The Nation. 194 (21).CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)  – via EBSCO's Academic Search Complete (subscription required)
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