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Author Chua, Daniel K. L., 1966-

Title Absolute music and the construction of meaning / Daniel K.L. Chua.

Publication Info. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [1999]
©1999
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 314 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series New perspectives in music history and criticism
New perspectives in music history and criticism.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-306) and index.
Contents pt. 1. The Garden of Eden. 1. On history. 2. On modernity. 3. On disenchantment. 4. On division. 5. On opera. 6. On machines. 7. On space. 8. On style -- pt. 2. The Fruit of Knowledge. 9. On being. 10. On the mind. 11. On biology. 12. On the body. 13. On the soul. 14. On morality. 15. On women. 16. On masculinity. 17. On independence. 18. On heroes. 19. On politics. 20. On nothing. 21. On God. 22. On infinity. 23. On self-deification. 24. On invisibility. 25. On conscious life-forms. 26. On artificiality -- pt. 3. The Tower of Babel. 27. On death. 28. On absolute music. 29. On the beautiful and the sublime. 30. On monuments. 31. On the apocalypse. 32. On the end. 33. On suicide. 34. On absolute drivel. 35. On Babel.
Summary This book examines the intellectual history of instrumental music, particularly the idea of absolute music. It shows how certain ideas in philosophy, theology and the sciences affect the meaning of instrumental music, and how instrumental music in turn permeates human discourse and helps construct meaning.
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Subject Absolute music.
Absolute music.
Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
Meaning (Philosophy)
Meaning (Philosophy)
Instrumental music -- Philosophy.
Instrumental music.
Philosophy.
Genre/Form Instrumental music.
Subject Instrumental music -- History and criticism.
Music -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
Music.
Chronological Term 18th century
Subject Music -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Chronological Term 19th century
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Chua, Daniel K.L., 1966- Absolute music and the construction of meaning. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999 0521631815 (DLC) 98042733 (OCoLC)40331077
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