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Antithetical arts : on the Ancient quarrel between literature and music.
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ISBN: 9780199562800 Year: 2009 Publisher: Oxford Oxford

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Antithetical arts : on the ancient quarrel between literature and music.
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ISBN: 9780199596294 0199596298 Year: 2011 Publisher: Oxford Oxford university press

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Absolute music and the construction of meaning
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ISBN: 0521631815 0521027519 0511089015 1107115698 0511019181 0511175752 0511156340 0511325401 0511481691 1280420294 0511051069 9780511481697 9780511019180 0511035829 9780511035821 9780511051067 9780511156342 9786610420292 6610420297 9780521631815 Year: 1999 Volume: *1 Publisher: Cambridge : 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 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 be in place for such meaning to exist. From the thought of Vincenzo Galilei to that of Theodore Adorno, Daniel Chua suggests that instrumental music has always been a critical and negative force in modernity, even with its nineteenth-century apotheosis as 'absolute music'.

Programming the absolute : nineteenth-century German music and the hermeneutics of the moment
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ISBN: 0691001499 Year: 2002 Publisher: Princeton ; Oxford Princeton University Press


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Absolute music : the history of an idea
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ISBN: 0199343632 0199343640 0199343659 9780199343638 9780199343645 9780199343652 9780190851170 019938472X 130657157X 0199373434 9780199373437 0190851171 9781306571579 Year: 2014 Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press,

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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 emphasis on efforts to reconcile the irreducible essence of the art with its profound effects on the human spirit. The core of this study focuses on the period 1850-1935, beginning with the collision between Richard Wagner and the Viennese critic Eduard Hanslick.


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Absolute music, mechanical reproduction
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ISBN: 9786612697661 0520945697 1282697668 9780520945692 9781282697669 9780520264793 0520264797 9780520264809 0520264800 6612697660 Year: 2010 Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press,

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Recordings are now the primary way we hear classical music, especially the more abstract styles of "absolute" instrumental music. In this original, provocative book, Arved Ashby argues that recording technology has transformed our understanding of art music. Contesting the laments of nostalgic critics, Ashby sees recordings as socially progressive and instruments of a musical vernacular, but also finds that recording and absolute music actually involve similar notions of removing sound from context. He takes stock of technology's impact on classical music, addressing the questions at the heart of the issue. This erudite yet concise study reveals how mechanical reproduction has transformed classical musical culture and the very act of listening, breaking down aesthetic and generational barriers and mixing classical music into the soundtrack of everyday life.

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MP3 (Audio coding standard) --- Sound --- Music and technology. --- Performance practice (Music) --- Music --- Sound recordings --- Absolute music. --- MPEG Audio Layer 3 (Audio coding standard) --- Digital audio --- Digital sound recording --- Digital electronics --- Technology and music --- Technology --- Hermeneutics (Music) --- Musical aesthetics --- Aesthetics --- Music theory --- Audio discs --- Audio recordings --- Audiorecordings --- Discs, Audio --- Discs, Sound --- Disks, Sound --- Phonodiscs --- Phonograph records --- Phonorecords --- Recordings, Audio --- Recordings, Sound --- Records, Phonograph --- Records, Sound --- Sound discs --- Audio-visual materials --- Abstract music --- Social aspects. --- Recording and reproducing --- Digital techniques. --- History --- Philosophy and aesthetics. --- Digital techniques --- Standards --- Philosophy --- Philosophy and aesthetics --- Schnabel, Artur, --- Gould, Glenn --- Schnabel, Arthur, --- Gūrudo, G. --- Gūrudo, Guren --- Gould, Glenn, --- Gold, Glen --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Absolute music --- Music and technology --- Acoustics --- Continuum mechanics --- Mathematical physics --- Physics --- Pneumatics --- Radiation --- Wave-motion, Theory of --- Social aspects --- Recording and reproducing&delete& --- Gould, Glenn Herbert, --- Gulʹd, Glen, --- 78.85 --- 78.81 --- 78.77.9 --- 78.86.2 --- 78.29.1 --- absolute instrumental music. --- aesthetics. --- art music. --- classical music. --- contemporary world. --- historical. --- listening to music. --- live arts. --- mechanical reproduction. --- music criticism. --- music critics. --- music historians. --- music history. --- music recordings. --- music scholars. --- music. --- musical contexts. --- musical culture. --- musicology. --- nonfiction. --- performing arts. --- recording technology. --- recordings and sound. --- socially progressive. --- students and teachers.

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