Absolute Music and the Construction of Meaning

Zusammenfassung 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 meaning. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; On the preface; Part I. 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; Part II. 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; Part III. 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; Bibliography; Index.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Daniel Chua, Daniel (King''s College London) Chua, Daniel K. L. Chua, Daniel K.L. Chua
• Collaboration: Jeffrey Kallberg (Editeur), Anthony Newcomb (Editeur)
• Edition: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 02.11.2006
• EAN: 9780521027519
• ISBN: 978-0-521-02751-9
• Pages: 328
• Thème: New Perspectives in Music Hist
• Catégorie: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Musique > Théorie de la musique