Music as Thought: Listening to the Symphony in the Age of BeethovenPrinceton University Press, 10.01.2009 - 208 Seiten 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. |
Inhalt
An Unlikely Genre The Rise of the Symphony | 1 |
Listening with Imagination The Revolution in Aesthetics | 5 |
Listening as Thinking From Rhetoric to Philosophy | 29 |
Listening to Truth Beethovens Fifth Symphony | 44 |
Listening to the Aesthetic State Cosmopolitanism | 63 |
Listening to the German State Nationalism | 79 |
Listening to Form The Refuge of Absolute Music | 104 |
Notes | 117 |
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