Absolute Music and the Construction of Meaning
(Part of the New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism Series)
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This book examines the intellectual history of instrumental music, in particular the idea of absolute music. It tries to show how certain ideas in philosophy, theology and the sciences affect the meaning and, indeed, the existence of instrumental music, and how, in turn, instrumental music is used to resolve or exemplify certain problems in modern culture. Instead of existing in a pure and autonomous form, music is woven back into the epistemological...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0521027519
ISBN13:9780521027519
Release Date:January 2008
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:328 Pages
Weight:1.06 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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