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Absolute music and the construction of meaning / / Daniel K.L. Chua



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Autore: Chua Daniel K. L. <1966-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Absolute music and the construction of meaning / / Daniel K.L. Chua Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Cambridge, UK ; ; New York, : Cambridge University Press, 1999
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 314 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
Disciplina: 781.1/7
Soggetto topico: Absolute music
Music - Philosophy and aesthetics
Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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; INDEX
Sommario/riassunto: 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'.
Titolo autorizzato: Absolute music and the construction of meaning  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 9780511089015
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Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910963947403321
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Serie: New perspectives in music history and criticism.