Music: A Very Short Introduction

• Nicholas Cook is an excellent expositor who writes with humour and flair. Anthony Storr described Cook's book, A Guide to Musical Analysis, as 'fascinating' and 'provocative'.
• Referring throughout to familiar musical examples, this Very Short Introduction will involve the reader, and raise thought-provoking questions about what music is, and how it is constructed and consumed.
• Covers not only Western music and not only classical music - Nicholas Cook discusses everything from rock to Chinese zither music
• 'another eminently readable publication by the people's musicologist' Anthony Gritten, University of East Anglia

Readership: All music-lovers; students planning to study music/musicology at degree level.

Nicholas Cook, Professor of Music Cambridge University

Introduction
1: Musical Values
2: Back to Beethoven
3: A State of Crisis?
4: An Imaginary Object
5: A Matter of Representation
6: Music and the Academy
7: Music and Gender
Conclusion
References
Index