This volume brings together some of today’s most exciting music scholars to engage with the multifaceted body of work produced by Nicholas Cook over the last thirty years.

It offers a forum for scholars to respond to his challenges to the discipline - to ‘rethink music’, to go ‘beyond the score’, and to build a more ‘relational musicology’.
Scholars from a range of subdisciplines have been chosen to reflect Cook’s breadth of interest, from music theory, musical multimedia and the performance turn, popular music studies, to the question of musical meaning.
Cook’s work has a fundamental conceptual synthesis - one that can play an important role in the future of musical scholarship globally.