Daniel Chua (King's College London)

Absolute Music and the Construction of Meaning

Herausgeber: Kallberg, Jeffrey; Newcomb, Anthony

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the intellectual history of instrumental music, particularly the idea of absolute music. It shows how certain ideas in philosophy, theology and the sciences affect the meaning of instrumental music, and how instrumental music in turn permeates human discourse and helps construct meaning.

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Produktdetails

• New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 536g
• ISBN-13: 9780521027519
• ISBN-10: 0521027519
• Artikelnr.: 21434183

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
On the preface
Part I. The Garden of Eden: 1. On history
2. On modernity
3. On disenchantment
4. On division
5. On opera
6. On machines
7. On space
8. On style
Part II. The Fruit of Knowledge: 9. On being
10. On the mind
11. On biology
12. On the body
13. On the soul
14. On morality
15. On women
16. On masculinity
17. On independence
18. On heroes
19. On politics
20. On nothing
21. On God
22. On infinity
23. On self-deification
24. On invisibility
25. On conscious life-forms
26. On artificiality
Part III. The Tower of Babel: 27. On death
28. On absolute music
29. On the beautiful and the sublime
30. On monuments
31. On the apocalypse
32. On the end
33. On suicide
34. On absolute drivel
35. On Babel
Bibliography
Index.