| Description |
xx, 169 pages ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-166) and index. |
| Contents |
Prologue. An unlikely genre : the rise of the symphony -- Listening with imagination : the revolution in aesthetics. From Kant to Hoffmann ; Idealism and the changing perception of perception ; Idealism and the new aesthetics of listening -- Listening as thinking : from rhetoric to philosophy. Listening in a rhetorical framework ; Listening in a philosophical framework ; Art as philosophy -- Listening to truth : Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. The infinite sublime ; History as knowing ; The synthesis of conscious and unconscious ; Organic coherence ; Beyond the sublime -- Listening to the aesthetic state : cosmopolitanism. The communal voice of the symphony ; The imperatives of individual and social synthesis ; The state as organism ; Schiller's idea of the aesthetic state ; Goethe's pedagogical province -- Listening to the German State : nationalism. German nationalism ; The symphony as a 'German' genre ; The performance politics of the music festival ; The symphony as democracy -- Epilogue. Listening to form : the refuge of absolute music. |
| Subject |
Symphony -- 19th century.
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Symphony. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Music appreciation.
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Music appreciation. |
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Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
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Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics. |
| ISBN |
0691126593 hardcover alkaline paper |
| Standard No. |
9780691126593 |
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