Absolute Music Construction Meaning: And the Construction of Meaning: 4 (New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism, Series Number 4) - Softcover

Chua

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521027519 ISBN 13: 9780521027519

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

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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Críticas:

'... 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

Reseña del editor:

This book is born out of two contradictions: first, it explores the making of meaning in a musical form that was made to lose its meaning at the turn of the nineteenth century; secondly, it is a history of a music that claims to have no history - absolute music. The book therefore writes against that notion of absolute music which tends to be the paradigm for most musicological and analytical studies. It is concerned not so much with what music is, but with why and how meaning is constructed in instrumental music and what structures of knowledge need to be in place for such meaning to exist. From the thought of Vincenzo Galilei to that of Theodore Adorno, Daniel Chua suggests that instrumental music has always been a critical and negative force in modernity, even with its nineteenth-century apotheosis as 'absolute music'.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0521027519
• ISBN 13: 9780521027519
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 328