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Absolute music and the construction of meaning /

This book examines the intellectual history of instrumental music, particularly the idea of absolute music. It shows how certain ideas in philosophy, theology and the sciences affect the meaning of instrumental music, and how instrumental music in turn permeates human discourse and helps construct m...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Chua, Daniel K. L., 1966-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©1999.
Series:New perspectives in music history and criticism.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. The Garden of Eden. 1. On history. 2. On modernity. 3. On disenchantment. 4. On division. 5. On opera. 6. On machines. 7. On space. 8. On style
  • pt. 2. The Fruit of Knowledge. 9. On being. 10. On the mind. 11. On biology. 12. On the body. 13. On the soul. 14. On morality. 15. On women. 16. On masculinity. 17. On independence. 18. On heroes. 19. On politics. 20. On nothing. 21. On God. 22. On infinity. 23. On self-deification. 24. On invisibility. 25. On conscious life-forms. 26. On artificiality
  • pt. 3. The Tower of Babel. 27. On death. 28. On absolute music. 29. On the beautiful and the sublime. 30. On monuments. 31. On the apocalypse. 32. On the end. 33. On suicide. 34. On absolute drivel. 35. On Babel.