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Music as Thought: Listening to the Symphony in the Age of Beethoven
Music as Thought Listening to the Symphony in the Age of Beethoven
Author: Mark Evan Bonds
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...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780691168050
ISBN-10: 0691168059
Publication Date: 7/28/2015
Pages: 208
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Publisher: Princeton University Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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