Music as Thought : : Listening to the Symphony in the Age of Beethoven / / Mark Evan Bonds.
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 instrument...
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009] ©2006 |
Year of Publication: | 2009 |
Edition: | Course Book |
Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Abbreviations
- Prologue. An Unlikely Genre: The Rise of the Symphony
- Chapter 1. Listening with Imagination: The Revolution in Aesthetics
- Chapter 2. Listening as Thinking: From Rhetoric to Philosophy
- Chapter 3. Listening to Truth: Beethoven's Fifth Symphony
- Chapter 4. Listening to the Aesthetic State: Cosmopolitanism
- Chapter 5. Listening to the German State: Nationalism
- Epilogue. Listening to Form: The Refuge of Absolute Music
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index