Absolute music : the history of an idea /
Bonds, Mark Evan,author.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Orpheus and Pythagoras -- Isomorphic resonance -- Expression. The separation of powers ; Music and language ; Music as language ; Mimesis -- Beauty -- Form. Form as number ; Form as content -- Autonomy. Material autonomy ; Ethical autonomy -- Disclosiveness. The composer as oracle ; Beautiful insights ; Cosmic insights -- Wagner's "absolute" music -- Hanslick's "pure" music. Terminology ; Hanslick's early aesthetics ; Hanslick the conventional ; Hanslick the radical ; Hanslick the ambivalent -- Liszt's "program" music -- Polemics -- Reconciliation -- Qualities recast. Expression ; Beauty ; Form ; Autonomy ; Disclosiveness ; Epilogue : since 1945.
Absolute music.
Music