Musician, musicology, and jazz specialist Laurent Cugny has penned an exhaustive study of the definition of a “musical work,” which has been published in English for the first time (translated from French by Bérengère Mauduit). That must have been quite the undertaking for Mauduit; this is a deeply academic read. That said, Cugny does a great job of keeping the reader focused and fascinated. “This book introduces a new theory of music production—one distinct from the conventional paradigms of writing and orality,” the sleeve notes read. That about nails it.
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