Translation: The Composer's Voice, And The Critical Review

In The Composer's Voice, one of Prof. Edward T. Cone's leading works, the author discussed, philosophically and critically, various elements and their interrelationships within music and its correlative extensions. Adapting dramatic methods of analyzing, introducing conceptions from other domains, combining issues both, in theoretical and practical realm, involving both vocal and instrumental music, Cone made a great effort to illuminate an issue never been noticed or studied seriously—the meaning of taking music as an utterance.Setting off from the status quo, in China, of translations concerning musicology and music theory, my critical review explained the significance of introducing this book, clarified the author's writing features and logic, took several keywords and key relationships as approaches to discuss extendedly the issues concerned by him, and, at last, presented some problems, as well as the solutions, during the course of my translation.