criticism of music.
Broadly speaking, criticism of music is the intellectual activity of formulating judgments on the value and degree of excellence of individual works of music, or whole groups or genres. Because music exists not only in performance but also in written (or printed) form, music criticism covers several related fields of activity: evaluation of the achievement of individual composers, critical commentary and analysis of works in scores, appraisal of newly created works, accounts of public performances and of recordings in electronic form. Although the existence of several or all of these fields may be tacitly accepted by many, it has become a popular convention to understand ‘music criticism’ to mean only one of the above activities—‘reviews of concerts published in the daily press’—and a ‘music critic’ is often understood to be a kind of journalist.... ...
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