Music as Thought
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-12659-3 (ISBN)
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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".
Acknowledgments xi Introduction xiii List of Abbreviations xxi PROLOGUE: An Unlikely Genre: The Rise of the Symphony 1 CHAPTER ONE: Listening with Imagination: The Revolution in Aesthetics 5 From Kant to Hoffmann 6 Idealism and the Changing Perception of Perception 10 Idealism and the New Aesthetics of Listening 22 CHAPTER TWO: Listening as Thinking: From Rhetoric to Philosophy 29 Listening in a Rhetorical Framework 30 Listening in a Philosophical Framework 33 Art as Philosophy 37 CHAPTER THREE: Listening to Truth: Beethoven's Fifth Symphony 44 The Infinite Sublime 45 History as Knowing 50 The Synthesis of Conscious and Unconscious 53 Organic Coherence 55 Beyond the Sublime 57 CHAPTER FOUR: Listening to the Aesthetic State: Cosmopolitanism 63 The Communal Voice of the Symphony 63 The Imperatives of Individual and Social Synthesis 68 The State as Organism 71 Schiller's Idea of the Aesthetic State 73 Goethe's Pedagogical Province 75 CHAPTER FIVE: Listening to the German State: Nationalism 79 German Nationalism 79 The Symphony as a "German" Genre 88 The Performance Politics of the Music Festival 92 The Symphony as Democracy 99 EPILOGUE: Listening to Form: The Refuge of Absolute Music 104 Notes 117 Bibliography 153 Index 167
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 27.8.2006 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | New Jersey |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 397 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-691-12659-3 / 0691126593 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-691-12659-3 / 9780691126593 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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