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Music as Thought : Listening to the Symphony in the Age of Beethoven / Mark Evan Bonds.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2009]Copyright date: ©2006Edition: Course BookDescription: 1 online resource (208 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691126593
  • 9781400827398
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 784.2/18409034 22
LOC classification:
  • ML1255
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Abbreviations -- Prologue. An Unlikely Genre: The Rise of the Symphony -- Chapter 1. Listening with Imagination: The Revolution in Aesthetics -- Chapter 2. Listening as Thinking: From Rhetoric to Philosophy -- Chapter 3. Listening to Truth: Beethoven's Fifth Symphony -- Chapter 4. Listening to the Aesthetic State: Cosmopolitanism -- Chapter 5. Listening to the German State: Nationalism -- Epilogue. Listening to Form: The Refuge of Absolute Music -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Before the nineteenth century, instrumental music was considered inferior to vocal music. Kant described wordless music as "more pleasure than culture," and Rousseau dismissed it for its inability to convey concepts. But by the early 1800s, a dramatic shift was under way. Purely instrumental music was now being hailed as a means to knowledge and embraced precisely because of its independence from the limits of language. What had once been perceived as entertainment was heard increasingly as a vehicle of thought. Listening had become a way of knowing. Music as Thought traces the roots of this fundamental shift in attitudes toward listening in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Focusing on responses to the symphony in the age of Beethoven, Mark Evan Bonds draws on contemporary accounts and a range of sources--philosophical, literary, political, and musical--to reveal how this music was experienced by those who heard it first. Music as Thought is a fascinating reinterpretation of the causes and effects of a revolution in listening.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Abbreviations -- Prologue. An Unlikely Genre: The Rise of the Symphony -- Chapter 1. Listening with Imagination: The Revolution in Aesthetics -- Chapter 2. Listening as Thinking: From Rhetoric to Philosophy -- Chapter 3. Listening to Truth: Beethoven's Fifth Symphony -- Chapter 4. Listening to the Aesthetic State: Cosmopolitanism -- Chapter 5. Listening to the German State: Nationalism -- Epilogue. Listening to Form: The Refuge of Absolute Music -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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Before the nineteenth century, instrumental music was considered inferior to vocal music. Kant described wordless music as "more pleasure than culture," and Rousseau dismissed it for its inability to convey concepts. But by the early 1800s, a dramatic shift was under way. Purely instrumental music was now being hailed as a means to knowledge and embraced precisely because of its independence from the limits of language. What had once been perceived as entertainment was heard increasingly as a vehicle of thought. Listening had become a way of knowing. Music as Thought traces the roots of this fundamental shift in attitudes toward listening in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Focusing on responses to the symphony in the age of Beethoven, Mark Evan Bonds draws on contemporary accounts and a range of sources--philosophical, literary, political, and musical--to reveal how this music was experienced by those who heard it first. Music as Thought is a fascinating reinterpretation of the causes and effects of a revolution in listening.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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