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Absolute Music and the Construction of Meaning
Daniel Chua
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Description for Absolute Music and the Construction of Meaning
paperback. This book examines the intellectual history of instrumental music and its power to construct meaning. Series Editor(s): Kallberg, Jeffrey; Newcomb, Anthony; Solie, Ruth A. Series: New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism. Num Pages: 328 pages, 11 b/w illus. 44 music examples. BIC Classification: AVA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 480.
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 nineteenth century; secondly, it is a history of a music that claims to have no history - absolute music. The book therefore writes against that notion of absolute music which tends to be the paradigm for most musicological and analytical studies. It is concerned not so much with what music is, but with why and how meaning is constructed in instrumental music and what structures of knowledge need to ... Read more
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 nineteenth century; secondly, it is a history of a music that claims to have no history - absolute music. The book therefore writes against that notion of absolute music which tends to be the paradigm for most musicological and analytical studies. It is concerned not so much with what music is, but with why and how meaning is constructed in instrumental music and what structures of knowledge need to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Series
New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521027519
SKU
V9780521027519
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Reviews for Absolute Music and the Construction of Meaning
'… has been explored by other writers before Chua, but he gives it an extra twist by setting it in the larger and longer story of Western civilisation's 'disenchantment'.' BBC Music Magazine