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Adolf Bernhard Marx
Aesthetics
Allegory of the Cave
Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung
Aphorism
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Carl Friedrich Zelter
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Consciousness
Cosmopolitanism
Critique of Judgment
Critique of Practical Reason
Eduard Hanslick
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Explanation
Felix Mendelssohn
Fine art
For Example
Friedrich Schiller
Friedrich Schleiermacher
Genre
German nationalism
Greatness
Haydn and Mozart
Idealism
Ideology
Imagery
Immanuel Kant
Incidental music
Intelligibility (philosophy)
Jean Paul
Johann Abraham Peter Schulz
Johann Mattheson
Johann Nikolaus Forkel
Listening
Ludwig van Beethoven
Majesty
Mimesis
Music criticism
Music festival
Musical note
Musician
Narrative
Novalis
Oratorio
Orchestra
Phenomenon
Philosopher
Philosophy
Phrase (music)
Pythagoreanism
Reality
Rhetoric
Richard Wagner
Robert Schumann
Romanticism
Schumann
Simulacrum
Singakademie
Symphonie fantastique
Symphony No. 3 (Beethoven)
Symphony No. 5 (Beethoven)
Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven)
System of Transcendental Idealism
Theodor W. Adorno
Thought
Timbre
Treatise
Vocal music
Wilhelm von Humboldt
Writing
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- ISBN 9780691168050
- Weight: 28g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 28 Jul 2015
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 embraced precisely because of its independence from the limits of language. What had once been perceived as entertainment was heard increasingly as a vehicle of thought. Listening had become a way of knowing. Music as Thought traces the roots of this fundamental shift in attitudes toward listening in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Focusing on responses to the symphony in the age of Beethoven, Mark Evan Bonds draws on contemporary accounts and a range of sources--philosophical, literary, political, and musical--to reveal how this music was experienced by those who heard it first. Music as Thought is a fascinating reinterpretation of the causes and effects of a revolution in listening.
Mark Evan Bonds is Professor of Musicology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His previous books include Wordless Rhetoric: Musical Form and the Metaphor of the Oration and After Beethoven: Imperatives of Originality in the Symphony. He is a former editor in chief of Beethoven Forum.
