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Absolute Music, Mechanical Reproduction
Language: en
Pages: 333
Authors: Arved Mark Ashby
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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"Arved Ashby writes with a keen sense of the historical processes, ironies, and reversals that seem to characterize the ways that musicologists think about, and
The Idea of Absolute Music
Language: en
Pages: 187
Authors: Carl Dahlhaus
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 1991-08-13 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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This volume examines a single music-aesthetical idea from various historical and philosophical backgrounds. In exploring the origins of the idea and its career
Absolute Music
Language: en
Pages: 401
Authors: Mark Evan Bonds
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-05-09 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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What is music, and why does it move us? From Pythagoras to the present, writers have struggled to isolate the essence of "pure" or "absolute" music in ways that
Absolute Music
Language: en
Pages: 401
Authors: Mark Evan Bonds
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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What we think music is shapes how we hear it. This book traces the history of the idea of pure - 'absolute' - music from Pythagoras to the present, with special
Absolute Music and the Construction of Meaning
Language: en
Pages: 330
Authors: Daniel Chua
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999-11-25 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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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 nin