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Absolute Music and the Construction of Meaning (New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism)
Absolute Music and the Construction of Meaning - New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism
Author: Daniel Chua
This book examines the intellectual history of instrumental music, in particular the idea of absolute music. It tries to show how certain ideas in philosophy, theology and the sciences affect the meaning and, indeed, the existence of instrumental music, and how, in turn, instrumental music is used to resolve or exemplify certain problems in mode...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780521027519
ISBN-10: 0521027519
Publication Date: 11/2/2006
Pages: 326
Edition: 1
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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