TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bonds,Mark Evan
TI  - Music as thought: listening to the symphony in the age of Beethoven 
SN  - 0691126593 (alk. paper)
AV  - ML1255 .B68 2006
U1  - 784.2/18409034 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Princeton,  N.J.
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Symphony
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Music appreciation
KW  - Music
KW  - Philosophy and aesthetics
KW  - Fellow
KW  - DaimlerChrysler
KW  - Class of Fall 2002
KW  - Written at the Academy
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [153]-166) and index; Prologue. An unlikely genre : the rise of the symphony -- 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 -- Listening as thinking : from rhetoric to philosophy. Listening in a rhetorical framework ; Listening in a philosophical framework ; Art as philosophy -- Listening to truth : Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. The infinite sublime ; History as knowing ; The synthesis of conscious and unconscious ; Organic coherence ; Beyond the sublime -- 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 -- 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 -- Epilogue. Listening to form : the refuge of absolute music
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