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PART 1 PEOPLE AND MUSIC Music, non-music and the soundscape; Publicperformance and the concert as categories of musical action; What makes musicmusical?; Musical as cultural text; Music and the arts in pre-Renaissance andRenaissance worship: a question of `expression'; On Patronage: `Musick, thatmind-tempering art' PART 2 THE TECHNOLOGY OF MUSIC Towards a new age in thetechnology of computer music; Composition with machines; Artistic necessity,context orientation, configurable space; Music and image on film and video:an absolute alternative; New (musical) instruments in the computer age:amplified performance systems and related examples of low-level technology;The listening imagination: listening in the electroacoustic era; Composingsounds with computers PART 3 THE STRUCTURE OF MUSIC Musical analysis;Analysis and the composer; New directions: The conception and development ofa composition; Psychological structures in music; Aural training: materialand method PART 4 THE INTERPRETATION OF MUSIC Performance practice studies:some current approaches to the early music phenomenon; Musical instrumentsand performers of the past; Vocal consort style and tunings; Authenticpronunciations for early music; Producer for early music: a cog in themechanism of musical life.