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title: "The Language of Music (Clarendon Paperbacks)"
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# The Language of Music (Clarendon Paperbacks)

**Brand:** deryck cooke
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- **What is this?** The Language of Music (Clarendon Paperbacks) by deryck cooke
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## Customer Reviews

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    This is one of the must have for a musician.
  

*by P***H on Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2016*

Love the book!  I had it and lost it.  New ones sell for $40 or more.  This was a real bargain!

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    Five Stars
  

*by J***N on Reviewed in the United States on July 9, 2015*

YAY!

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    Mature, clear, beautiful
  

*by H***I on Reviewed in the United States on February 12, 2013*

This is a truly wonderful book. I happened upon a copy in a used book store and it immediately grabbed my attention. I had wondered about the possibility of music being a language, and speaking to a deep and emotional part of human nature, but had never seen the idea developed or argued at length. Within just the first few pages, however, I knew I'd found something special. Cooke argues that Western (mostly classical) music is truly a language, but one that speaks to the emotions and not to the intellect. Music is felt, and certain musical motifs or phrases evoke certain emotions in certain contexts. He provides copious examples showing this to be the case, with meticulous attention given to all basic aspects of music: pitch, volume, time, intervals, rhythm, melody, harmony. His writing is crystal clear, his reasoning is well thought out, and his presentation is both entertaining and heartfelt. He shows himself to have a deep understanding of human psychology, emotional depth, and of course, music. (This is the guy that orchestrated Mahler's Tenth, after all.) Cooke closes the book with extended analysis of Mozart's Fortieth and Vaughan-Williams' Sixth symphonies, showing how all the individual elements discussed previously come together in a fully realized work.The Language of Music (****1/2) is a masterpiece of clarity, musical understanding and psychological depth. While it's definitely a shame that so little has been done to develop the ideas in this book since it was written (and so many have attacked his basic premise, unjustly in my opinion), it's interesting to see scientific studies confirming some of what Cooke describes, for example the universality of certain musical characteristics. Musicians will naturally play in certain ways to evoke fear, excitement, sadness, joy. But Cooke's book goes so much further. If you have some musical background (you'll need it to make sense of the examples), do check it out. It's a joy.

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