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Absolute Music and the Construction of Meaning

Absolute Music and the Construction of Meaning

Hardcover

Series: New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism, Book 4

Music Instruction: GeneralMusic Reference

ISBN10: 0521631815
ISBN13: 9780521631815
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Nov 25 1999
Pages: 328
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.87 Width: 6.21 Depth: 9.32
Language: English
This book examines the intellectual history of instrumental music, in particular the idea of absolute music. It tries to show how certain ideas in philosophy, theology and the sciences affect the meaning and, indeed, the existence of instrumental music, and how, in turn, instrumental music is used to resolve or exemplify certain problems in modern culture. Instead of existing in a pure and autonomous form, music is woven back into the epistemological fabric and entangled with numerous discourses, thus demonstrating the centrality of music in the construction of meaning.

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