The theory of musical communication

Product Description
This book provides an overview of the communicative processes that encompass the creation, interpretation, perception, and evaluation of the various phenomena constituting musical art. The numerous internal and external communicative links in the spheres of the composer, the performer, the listener and the musicologist-critic links which constitute a complex system of the transmission of musical information are considered from a socio-cultural perspective, which determines the high social role of the academic genres of music. The book will be of use to professional musicians and to all those interested in the acute problems of musicology, musical aesthetics, the sociology of music, and musical pedagogics.
About the Author
Alexander N. Yakupov is Rector of the Russian State Specialized Academy of Arts, artistic director and conductor of the Opera Theatre of the Academy, Doctor of Arts, Professor and an Honored Arts Activist of Russia. From 1974 to 2000, he worked in Magnitogorsk as Rector of the Conservatory and artistic director of the Opera and Ballet Theatre. He founded a number of institutions in Magnitogorsk such as the State Conservatory, the Opera House, and a specialized music school at the Conservatory, and was a Head of the Central Music School and artistic director and conductor of the Opera Theatre of the Moscow Conservatory in 20022011. He is the author of several monographs and more than 300 articles in Russian and foreign newspapers and magazines.