Review of "Music: A Very Short Introduction" by Nicholas Cook

 

I really liked this...it's not really an introduction to music so much as an introduction of how people think about music...maybe a short introduction to "musicology", but who would buy that?

Anyway, it was really enjoyable, and set out lots of good stuff about the role of the canon of western music, performance culture, the status of performers vs composers, and so on.

I'd like to read the next level up (or down?) about this, but wonder if there is such a book.