Title: Music as thought
Subtitle: listening to the symphony in the age of Beethoven
First published: 2006
Description: The goal of this book is to trace the process by which purely instrumental music - music without a text and without any suggestion of an external program - came to be perceived as a vehicle of ideas in the decades around 1800, of just how and why the act of listening came to be equated with the act of thinking.
Subjects: Music appreciation, Symphony, Music, Philosophy and aesthetics, Music, philosophy and aesthetics
Time periods: 19th century