[PDF.52ki] Music as Thought: Listening to the Symphony in the Age of Beethoven

Music as Thought: Listening to the Symphony in the Age of Beethoven

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||7 of 10 people found the following review helpful.| The Symphony Grows Up|By California Bill|In this well written and heavily documented book, Mark Evan Bonds focuses on the nineteenth century symphony. The book is full of passionate and exalted quotations from various nineteenth century philosophical writers. Bonds' claim is that the listeners changed how instrumental music was understood. Bonds sees the status of instrumental| |Philosophical discussion of music can easily become dense, but Bonds presents his arguments and evidence in a clear, discernible manner such that readers with little exposure to the philosophical issues of the time period can follow his reasoning and come away

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 embraced precisely because of its independence from the limits of language. What had once been perceived as entertainment wa...

You easily download any file type for your device.Music as Thought: Listening to the Symphony in the Age of Beethoven   |  Mark Evan Bonds. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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