03594nam 2200865 a 450 991096394740332120200520144314.09780511089015051108901597811071156991107115698978051101918005110191819781280420290128042029497805111757560511175752978051115634205111563409780511325403051132540197805114816970511481691978051105106705110510692027/heb07567(CKB)111056485648296(EBL)202168(OCoLC)51296820(SSID)ssj0000096264(PQKBManifestationID)11119502(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000096264(PQKBWorkID)10075377(PQKB)10146951(UkCbUP)CR9780511481697(Au-PeEL)EBL202168(CaPaEBR)ebr10005710(CaONFJC)MIL42029(MiAaPQ)EBC202168(dli)HEB07567(MiU)MIU01000000000000007427355(EXLCZ)9911105648564829619981103d1999 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierAbsolute music and the construction of meaning /Daniel K.L. Chua1st ed.Cambridge, UK ;New York Cambridge University Press19991 online resource (xii, 314 pages) digital, PDF file(s)New perspectives in music history and criticismTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).9780521027519 0521027519 9780521631815 0521631815 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ON THE PREFACE; PART 1 The Garden of Eden; PART 2 The Fruit of Knowledge; PART 3 The Tower of Babel; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEXThis 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'.New perspectives in music history and criticism.Absolute musicMusicPhilosophy and aestheticsAbsolute music.MusicPhilosophy and aesthetics.781.1/7Chua Daniel K. L.1966-790550MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910963947403321Absolute music and the construction of meaning1765553UNINA