Deryck Cooke

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Deryck Cooke

British musicologist

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Deryck Cooke, the British musicologist and the author of The Language of Music (1959), who may be classified as a referential expressionist, offered a sophisticated argument for the notion of music as language. Concepts, however, may not be rendered by this language, only feelings. Cooke…
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Deryck Cooke, the British musicologist and the author of The Language of Music (1959), who may be classified as a referential expressionist, offered a sophisticated argument for the notion of music as language. Concepts, however, may not be rendered by this language, only feelings. Cooke…
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