Music as thought
Subtitle: listening to the symphony in the age of Beethoven
By: Mark Evan Bonds.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Princeton, [N.J.]
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780691126593
Subjects: Symphony -- 19th century; Music appreciation; Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue. An unlikely genre : the rise of the symphony; title: Listening with imagination : the revolution in aesthetics. From Kant to Hoffmann ; Idealism and the changing perception of perception ; Idealism and the new aesthetics of listening; title: Listening as thinking : from rhetoric to philosophy. Listening in a rhetorical framework ; Listening in a philosophical framework ; Art as philosophy; title: Listening to truth : Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. The infinite sublime ; History as knowing ; The synthesis of conscious and unconscious ; Organic coherence ; Beyond the sublime; title: Listening to the aesthetic state : cosmopolitanism. The communal voice of the symphony ; The imperatives of individual and social synthesis ; The state as organism ; Schiller's idea of the aesthetic state ; Goethe's pedagogical province; title: Listening to the German State : nationalism. German nationalism ; The symphony as a 'German' genre ; The performance politics of the music festival ; The symphony as democracy; title: Epilogue. Listening to form : the refuge of absolute music.