Music as thought : listening to the symphony in the age of Beethoven / Mark Evan Bonds.

Author/creator Bonds, Mark Evan
Format Book
Publication InfoPrinceton, NJ : Princeton University Press, ©2006.
Descriptionxx, 169 pages ; 25 cm
Subjects
Symphony--19th century.
Music appreciation.
Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.

Contents Prologue. An unlikely genre: the rise of the symphony -- Listening with imagination: the revolution in aesthetics. From Kant to Hoffmann ; Idealism and the changing perception of perception ; Idealism and the new aesthetics of listening -- Listening as thinking: from rhetoric to philosophy. Listening in a rhetorical framework ; Listening in a philosophical framework ; Art as philosophy -- Listening to truth: Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. The infinite sublime ; History as knowing ; The synthesis of conscious and unconscious ; Organic coherence ; Beyond the sublime -- Listening to the aesthetic state: cosmopolitanism. The communal voice of the symphony ; The imperatives of individual and social synthesis ; The state as organism ; Schiller's idea of the aesthetic state ; Goethe's pedagogical province -- Listening to the German State: nationalism. German nationalism ; The symphony as a 'German' genre ; The performance politics of the music festival ; The symphony as democracy -- Epilogue. Listening to form: the refuge of absolute music.
Abstract The goal of this book is to trace the process by which purely instrumental music--music without a text and without any suggestion of an external program--came to be perceived as a vehicle of ideas in the decades around 1800, of just how and why the act of listening came to be equated with the act of thinking.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 153-166) and index.
LCCN 2005034091
ISBN0691126593 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN9780691126593

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