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1 online resource (xx, 169 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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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. |
| Summary |
Before the nineteenth century, instrumental music was considered inferior to vocal music. Kant described wordless music as "more pleasure than culture," and Rousseau dismissed it for its inability to convey concepts. But by the early 1800s, a dramatic shift was under way. Purely instrumental music was now being hailed as a means to knowledge and embraced precisely because of its independence from the limits of language. What had once been perceived as entertainment was heard increasingly as a vehicle of thought. Listening had become a way of knowing. Music as Thought traces the roots of this f. |
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Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Symphony -- 19th century.
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Symphony. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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Music appreciation.
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Music appreciation. |
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Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
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Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics. |
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1800-1899 |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Bonds, Mark Evan. Music as thought. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2006 0691126593 9780691126593 (DLC) 2005034091 (OCoLC)62330881 |
| ISBN |
9781400827398 (electronic book) |
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1400827396 (electronic book) |
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1282129678 |
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9781282129672 |
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9786612129674 |
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6612129670 |
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0691126593 (alkaline paper) |
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9780691126593 (alkaline paper) |
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