| Description |
xiii, 375 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Orpheus and Pythagoras -- Isomorphic resonance -- Expression. The separation of powers ; Music and language ; Music as language ; Mimesis -- Beauty -- Form. Form as number ; Form as content -- Autonomy. Material autonomy ; Ethical autonomy -- Disclosiveness. The composer as oracle ; Beautiful insights ; Cosmic insights -- Wagner's "absolute" music -- Hanslick's "pure" music. Terminology ; Hanslick's early aesthetics ; Hanslick the conventional ; Hanslick the radical ; Hanslick the ambivalent -- Liszt's "program" music -- Polemics -- Reconciliation -- Qualities recast. Expression ; Beauty ; Form ; Autonomy ; Disclosiveness ; Epilogue : since 1945. |
| Subject |
Absolute music.
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Absolute music. |
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Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
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Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics. |
| ISBN |
9780199343638 (hardback) |
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0199343632 (hardback) |
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9780199343652 (updf) |
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0199343659 (updf) |
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9780199343645 (online content) |
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0199343640 (online content) |
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