Hi, /mu/ here, what are the best books on interpreting music,

Adorno the Terrible, "Gas All Jazzmen"

>>9620722
ask /classical/

>>9620743
I don't just want to focus on classical music

>>9620722
I haven't read it myself but my musician of a friend said he found Understanding Music: Philosophy and Interpretation by Rodger Scruton to be inspiring.

>>9620752
Well almost all literature that deals with what you're asking for is going to focus predominantly on classical music. There's even a mega folder in the /classical/ OP which has various books in it dealing with what you're asking.
>>9620781
Scruton is just Grumpy old man: the philosopher.

>>9620781
Scruton is the most boring kind of conservative you can think of, also he likes to pretend that music academia is some sort of Marxist crackpot, although most of it has been historically either traditionalist or individualist. He's the kind of guy who will always omit that Schoenberg was a monarchist.

>>9620781
>give money to Rodger "tonality, just like cigarettes, makes life inherently better" Scruton

go away. go read

http://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Writings
http://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Music_theory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_music_theorists

>>9620870
i'm trying to find something to read
>>9620884
not really much of a point in dumping thousands of recs on someone

>>9620917
>not really much of a point in dumping thousands of recs on someone
then be more specific with your request, genre era instrument philosophy?

>>9620722
just read schoenberg's harmonielehre
geez not hard

>>9620722
The Rest Is Noise by Alex Ross

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Is this any good?

Im not a fan of Copland really