Absolute Music and the Construction of Meaning (New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism)
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' ... has been explored by other writers before Chua, but he gives it an extra twist by setting it in the larger and longer story of Western civilisation's 'disenchantment'. BBC Music Magazine
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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 fabric and entangled with numerous discourses, thus demonstrating the centrality of music in the construction of meaning.
Absolute Music and the Construction of Meaning (New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism)
Absolute Music and the Construction of Meaning (New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism),Daniel Chua,Jeffrey Kallberg,Anthony Newcomb,Ruth Solie,Cambridge University Press,0521631815,Absolute music,General,History & Criticism - General,Instruction & Study - Appreciation,Instruction & Study - Composition,Instruction & Study - Theory,Instrumental Ensembles And Their Music,Music,Philosophy And Esthetics Of Music,Philosophy and aesthetics,Music / General,Theory of music & musicology
Absolute Music and the Construction of Meaning (New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism)
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