Nicholas Cook
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Nicholas Cook's Degrees
- PhD Musicology University of Nottingham
- Masters Music University of Oxford
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Nicholas Cook, is a British musicologist and writer born in Athens, Greece. From 2009 to 2017, he was the 1684 Professor of Music at the University of Cambridge, where he is a Fellow of Darwin College. Previously, he was professorial research fellow at Royal Holloway, University of London, where he directed the Arts and Humanities Research Council Research Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music . He has also taught at the University of Hong Kong, University of Sydney, and University of Southampton, where he served as dean of arts.
Nicholas Cook's Published Works
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Published Works
- Analysing Musical Multimedia (1998) (320)
- Music: A Very Short Introduction (1998) (286)
- A guide to musical analysis (1987) (259)
- Music, Imagination, And Culture (1991) (248)
- Beyond the Score: Music as Performance (2013) (180)
- Between Process and Product: Music and/as Performance (2001) (154)
- Theorizing Musical Meaning (2001) (138)
- The Perception of Large-Scale Tonal Closure (1987) (132)
- The Cambridge Companion to Recorded Music (2009) (102)
- The Schenker Project (2007) (101)
- Empirical musicology : aims, methods, prospects (2004) (87)
- Perception: A perspective from music theory (1994) (69)
- Music as Creative Practice (2018) (55)
- The Cambridge history of twentieth-century music (2004) (50)
- The Schenker project : culture, race, and music theory in fin-de-siècle Vienna (2007) (42)
- Performance Analysis and Chopin's Mazurkas (2007) (41)
- Interpretation and performance in Bryn Harrison's être-temps (2005) (39)
- The Other Beethoven: Heroism, the Canon, and the Works of 1813––14 (2003) (36)
- Beethoven Symphony no. 9 (1993) (30)
- Representation in Western Music: Video cultures: ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’, Wayne’s World , and beyond (2013) (27)
- Music Theory and 'Good Comparison': A Viennese Perspective (1989) (27)
- Computational and Comparative Musicology (2004) (26)
- Schenker's Theory of Music as Ethics (1989) (26)
- Epistemologies of music theory (2002) (25)
- The Practice of Performance: The conductor and the theorist: Furtwängler, Schenker and the first movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony (1995) (25)
- (Post-)minimalisms 1970–2000: the search for a new mainstream (2004) (25)
- Music and meaning in the commercials (1994) (25)
- From wind-up to iPod: Techno-cultures of listening (2009) (20)
- Cambridge Companion to Music and Digital Culture (2016) (20)
- Taking it to the bridge : music as performance (2013) (20)
- Introduction: What Is Empirical Musicology? (2004) (20)
- Structure and Performance Timing in Bach's C Major Prelude (WTCI): An Empirical Study (1987) (19)
- Making music together, or improvisation and its others (2004) (19)
- Musical Form and the Listener (1987) (18)
- Methods for analysing recordings (2009) (18)
- At the Borders of Musical Identity: Schenker, Corelli and the Graces (1999) (14)
- History and class consciousness: pop music towards 2000 (2004) (13)
- Beyond the notes (2008) (13)
- The Ghost in the Machine: Towards a Musicology of Recordings (2010) (13)
- Selling sounds: Recordings and the record business (2009) (13)
- Between art and science: Music as performance (2014) (12)
- Changing the musical object : Approaches to performance analysis (2009) (11)
- Music, Sound and Space: Classical music and the politics of space (2013) (11)
- Recording practices and the role of the producer (2009) (11)
- Prompting Performance: Text, Script, and Analysis in Bryn Harrison’s être-temps (2005) (10)
- Emotion in Culture and History (1993) (10)
- Writing on music or axes to grind: road rage and musical community (2003) (9)
- The recorded document: Interpretation and discography (2009) (9)
- The Editor and the Virtuoso, or Schenker versus Bülow (1991) (8)
- Music, Performance, Meaning: Selected Essays (2007) (8)
- Afterword: Recording: From reproduction to representation to remediation (2009) (8)
- Theory into Practice: Composition, Performance and the Listening Experience (1999) (7)
- Border Crossings: A Commentary on Henkjan Honing's "On the Growing Role of Observation, Formalization and Experimental Method in Musicology" (2006) (7)
- Beethoven's Unfinished Piano Concerto: a Case of Double Vision?* (1989) (7)
- Introduction: Refocusing Theory (2012) (7)
- Rewriting the past: classicisms of the inter-war period (2004) (7)
- The Domestic Gesamtkunstwerk, or Record Sleeves and Reception* (2017) (7)
- Heinrich Schenker, Polemicist: A Reading of the Ninth Symphony Monograph@@@Beethoven's Ninth Symphony: A Portrayal of Its Musical Content, with Running Commentary on Performance and Literature as Well (1995) (6)
- Music of a century: museum culture and the politics of subsidy (2004) (6)
- Review-Essay: Putting the Meaning back into Music, or Semiotics Revisited (1996) (6)
- Off the record: performance, history, and musical logic (2011) (6)
- Proclaiming the mainstream: Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern (2004) (6)
- Stravinsky conducts Stravinsky (2003) (6)
- Music of the youth revolution: rock through the 1960s (2004) (6)
- Analysis through composition : principles of the classical style (1998) (5)
- Expanding horizons: the international avant-garde, 1962–75 (2004) (5)
- The development of recording technologies (2009) (5)
- The Politics of Assimilation (2007) (5)
- Digital Technology and Cultural Practice (2019) (4)
- Beethoven: Performance and tradition (1993) (4)
- Music of seriousness and commitment: the 1930s and beyond (2004) (4)
- Ageing of the new: the museum of musical modernism (2004) (4)
- Getting sounds: The art of sound engineering (2009) (4)
- On Qualifying Relativism (2001) (4)
- Learning to live with recording (2009) (3)
- Introduction: trajectories of twentieth-century music (2004) (3)
- ‘It could have happened’: The evolution of music construction (2009) (3)
- Review of Form and Method: Composing Music (The Rothschild Lectures) by Roger Reynolds (2004) (3)
- Alternative Realities: A Reply to Richard Taruskin (2006) (3)
- Language, Music, and Mind Diana Raffman (1994) (3)
- Imagining Things: Mind Into Music (And Back Again) (2007) (2)
- Between Science and Art: Approaches to Recorded Music (2007) (2)
- Scripting Social Interaction: Improvisation, Performance, and Western “Art” Music (2017) (2)
- Broadening horizons: ‘Performance’ in the studio (2009) (2)
- Review-Essay: Putting the Meaning Back into Music, or Semiotics Revisited: Musical Meaning in Beethoven: Markedness, Correlation, and Interpretation . Robert Hatten. ; A Theory of Musical Semiotics . Eero Tarasti. (1996) (2)
- Beyond reproduction: Semiotic perspectives on musical performance (2014) (2)
- Encountering the Other, Redefining the Self: Hindostannie Airs, Haydn’s Folksong Settings and the ‘Common Practice’ Style (2017) (2)
- Form and Method: Composing Music (The Rothschild Lectures) (2004) (2)
- Western music as world music (2013) (2)
- Between the wars: traditions, modernisms, and the ‘little people from the suburbs’ (2004) (2)
- Music, text and stage: the tradition of bourgeois tonality to the Second World War (2004) (2)
- Inventing tradition: Webern's Piano Variations in early recordings (2017) (2)
- Producing a credible vocal (2009) (2)
- Sound Law and the Scholar (2012) (2)
- 6. Music and the Academy (2000) (1)
- 7. Music and Gender (2000) (1)
- The politics of the recording studio: A case study from South Africa (2009) (1)
- Performing Live in Second Life (2016) (1)
- Implications for Music Studies (2014) (1)
- Limitations and creativity in recording and performance (2009) (1)
- Music as Text, Music as Performance (2020) (1)
- A matter of circumstance: On experiencing recordings (2009) (1)
- Page and Stage (2014) (1)
- Liszt - 100 Years on (1986) (1)
- Keynote lecture: Musical encounters: Towards social and intercultural perspectives on music (2010) (1)
- Still small voices (2009) (1)
- Heinrich Schenker, anti-historicist (1993) (1)
- Gender role conflict and alcohol metacognitions : implications for the Marlatt Model of Relapse Prevention (2016) (1)
- Techniques for analysing recordings: an introduction (2009) (1)
- Records and recordings in post-punk England, 1978–80 (2009) (1)
- Between art and science (2015) (1)
- Flirting with the vernacular: America in Europe, 1900–45 (2004) (1)
- Revisiting concert life in the mid-century: The survival of acetate discs (2009) (1)
- Liszt's Second Thoughts: "Liebestraum" No. 2 and Its Relatives (1988) (1)
- The Imaginary African (2017) (1)
- After swing: modern jazz and its impact (2004) (1)
- An Introduction to Music Studies: The economics and business of music (2009) (1)
- Analysis@@@A Guide to Musical Analysis@@@Music Analysis in Theory and Practice (1989) (1)
- MUD/MOO environments in the delivery of user support and training (1997) (1)
- Raiders of the lost archive (2009) (1)
- Introduction: Desert Island Discs in context (2017) (0)
- All our yesterdays (2005) (0)
- Beethoven: Conclusion Beyond interpretation? (1993) (0)
- Creative in a different sort of way (2018) (0)
- 5. A Matter of Representation (2000) (0)
- Foundations of the Schenker Project (2007) (0)
- Beethoven: The Romantic Ninth (1993) (0)
- RMA volume 124 issue 2 Cover and Front matter (1999) (0)
- Music and Foresight (2017) (0)
- 3. A State of Crisis (2000) (0)
- The Signifying Body (2014) (0)
- Music Perception, Vol. 1, Nos. 1-4; Vol. 2, Nos. 1-2 (1983, 1984) (1987) (0)
- Reply to Robert Cantrick (2002) (0)
- 5. Music in a global world (2021) (0)
- 2. Representing Beethoven: Romance And Sonata Form In Simon Cellan Jones’S Eroica (2019) (0)
- Report: Fourth Symposium of the International Musicological Society (2017) (0)
- A Performing Edition of Beethoven's Sixth Fortepiano Concerto? (1993) (0)
- 1. Music in the moment (2021) (0)
- 4. An Imaginary Object (2000) (0)
- 4. Music 2.0 (2021) (0)
- The twentieth-century Ninth (1993) (0)
- CHAPTER 2 Scripting Social Interaction: Improvisation, Performance, and Western “Art” Music (2020) (0)
- 1 1 Analysing Performance and Performing Analysis (2012) (0)
- Getting Out of the Garret (2018) (0)
- Heinrich Schenker, Modernist: Detail, Difference, and Analysis (2016) (0)
- Letter from Nicholas Cook (1990) (0)
- Diamond-Related African Conflicts: A Fact Sheet (2001) (0)
- Editing in Music (2015) (0)
- Introduction: Schenker's Contexts (2007) (0)
- Thomas Vincent Lawson FREng, 1925–2009—A “reminiscence” by Nicholas Cook (2009) (0)
- Seeing Sound, Hearing the Body (2016) (0)
- Technology, the studio, music (2009) (0)
- Reviews of Books (1975) (0)
- Taking It to the Bridge (2013) (0)
- Report: Music Processing on the IBM: A Review of Available Systems (2017) (0)
- Music Theory: Anatomy of a Disclipine (2016) (0)
- 8 In Praise of Symbolic Poverty (2021) (0)
- Rethinking the garret (2018) (0)
- What the Theorist Heard (2014) (0)
- One man's approach to remastering (2009) (0)
- Any Old Music (1998) (0)
- Editorial (2000) (0)
- Beethoven: Sketches and myths (1993) (0)
- 1. Musical Values (2000) (0)
- The Ghost in the Machine (2014) (0)
- Techniques for analysing recordings (2009) (0)
- Music analysis and the listener (1989) (0)
- WORDS ABOUT MUSIC, OR ANALYSIS VERSUS PERFORMANCE (2021) (0)
- From Lanza to Lassus (2009) (0)
- Musik als Text, Musik als Performanz (2018) (0)
- Afterword: Playing the discographic self (2017) (0)
- Anthony Pople (1955–2003) (2004) (0)
- The Reluctant Modernist (2007) (0)
- Introduction (2021) (0)
- 3. The presence of the past (2021) (0)
- Musical Meaning: Toward a Critical History (review) (2005) (0)
- Mashed-up classics (2021) (0)
- The Conservative Tradition (2007) (0)
- Do English football teams have different passing styles between European and domestic competition (2010) (0)
- Beethoven: Select bibliography (1993) (0)
- The original cast recording of West Side Story (2009) (0)
- 2. Thinking in music (2021) (0)
- Agora somos todos (etno)musicólogos (2006) (0)
- Making music together (2018) (0)
- Beethoven: Schiller's ‘An die Freude’ and the Ninth Symphony (1993) (0)
- Close and Distant Listening (2014) (0)
- Response to Christopher Peacocke: Perception (2020) (0)
- A short take in praise of long takes (2009) (0)
- 2. Back to Beethoven (2000) (0)
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