Books By Nicholas Cook - Author

Nicholas Cook is 1684 Professor Emeritus at the University of Cambridge. He previously taught at Royal Holloway (University of London) and at the Universities of Southampton, Sydney, and Hong Kong. His recent books include Beyond the Score: Music as Performance (2013), Music as Creative Practice (2018), and Music: Why it Matters (2023), while in 2021 his Music: A Very Short Introduction (originally published in 1998 and translated into sixteen languages) appeared in a completely rewritten second edition. A former British Academy/Wolfson Research Professor, he was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 2001 and holds a Doctorate of Humane Letters from the University of Chicago.