Music as Thought : Listening to the Symphony in the Age of Beethoven
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0691168059
ISBN-13
9780691168050
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Imprint
Princeton University Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 28th, 2015
Print length
208 Pages
Weight
332 grams
Dimensions
15.90 x 23.50 x 1.50 cms
Product Classification:
Theory of music & musicologyClassical music (c 1750 to c 1830)
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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 em
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