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For the love of it : amateuring and its rivals

Title: For the love of it : amateuring and its rivals / Wayne Booth.
Author: Booth, Wayne C.
Publication: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1999], ©1999.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-226) and index.

Contents

Overture: What Is an Amateur and Why Amateuring Matters -- First Movement: The Courtship. 1. Getting It into My Bones. 2. Seduced by the Cello. 3. Amateuring and Rival Pleasures -- Second Movement: The Marriage. 4. The Zen of Thumb Position Maintenance. 5. Teaching the Love. 6. Meditations of an Aging Pupil. Interlude: The Amateur Writer Quarrels with the Amateur Player -- Third Movement: The Love Fulfilled. 7. Amateur Hours: Disastrous, Not Too Bad, and Just Plain Glorious. 8. Hearing with Your Body: How Playing Transforms Listening. 9. The Three Gifts -- Fourth Movement: Rising Dissonance, Resolved to Heavenly Harmony. 10. "Making It," Selling Out, and the Future of Amateuring. 11. The Music of the Spheres - But What Spheres?

ISBN

0226065855 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

98042920

OCLC

39810855
ocm39810855

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Columbia University Libraries