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This book is born out of two contradictions: first, it explores the making of meaning in a musical form that was made to lose its meaning at the turn of the nineteenth century; secondly, it is a history of a music that claims to have no history - absolute music. The book therefore writes against that notion of absolute music which tends to be the paradigm for most musicological and analytical studies. It is concerned not so much with what music is, but with why and how meaning is constructed in instrumental music and what structures of knowledge need to be in place for such meaning to exist. From the thought of Vincenzo Galilei to that of Theodore Adorno, Daniel Chua suggests that instrumental music has always been a critical and negative force in modernity, even with its nineteenth-century apotheosis as 'absolute music'.

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English
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314

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1999, Cambridge University Press
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1999, Cambridge University Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Cambridge, UK, New York
Series
New perspectives in music history and criticism

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
781.1/7
Library of Congress
ML3854 .C5 1999

The Physical Object

Pagination
xii, 314 p. :
Number of pages
314

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL380524M
Internet Archive
absolutemusiccon0000chua
ISBN 10
0521631815
LCCN
98042733
OCLC/WorldCat
40331077
Library Thing
3103443
Goodreads
3854152

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