Late in life, German musicologist Eggebrecht (1919-99) summarized everything he had thought and written about music over the years, clarifying and supplementing when appropriate. He addresses
both music lovers who are willing to reflect on music and their encounter with it, and more academically-minded enthusiasts and specialists. His topics include aesthetic understanding and
identification; ontology, interpretation, and performance; cognitive understanding and the limits to it; the encircling approach; and John Cage identifying life with art. A British musician who
studied in Germany, Evans translated the 1999 second edition of Musik Verstehan, published by Florian Noetzel. Annotation 穢2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
