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Absolute music : the history of an idea / Mark Evan Bonds.
LIBRA ML3854 .B66 2014
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bonds, Mark Evan, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Absolute music.
- Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.
- Music.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 375 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2014]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0199343632
- 9780199343638
- OCLC:
- 856861313
- Publisher Number:
- 99958903090
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