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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'.

Music --- Absolute music --- Absolute muziek --- Musique absolue --- Absolute music. --- Musique pure --- Musique --- Philosophy and aesthetics --- Philosophie et esthétique --- Philosophy and aesthetics. --- Hermeneutics (Music) --- Musical aesthetics --- Aesthetics --- Music theory --- Abstract music --- Philosophy --- Muziekfilosofie --- Muziekesthetica

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muziektheater --- muzieksymboliek --- Music --- Devil --- Devil in music --- Démon dans la musique --- Devil in music. --- Démon dans la musique --- 78.21

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Music --- Musique --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- 20th century --- History and criticism

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Musical perception. --- Musique concrète --- Music --- Perception musicale --- Musique --- History and criticism. --- Philosophy and aesthetics. --- Histoire et critique --- Philosophie et esthétique --- Schaeffer, Pierre, --- Musical perception --- Musique concrète --- History and criticism --- Philosophy and aesthetics --- Philosophie et esthétique --- 78.21.1 Schaeffer --- 78.28.1 --- Musique concrète - History and criticism --- Music - Philosophy and aesthetics --- Schaeffer, Pierre, - 1910-1995

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Music and society --- Musique et société --- Muziek en maatschappij --- Music --- Musique --- History and criticism. --- Philosophy and aesthetics --- Histoire et critique --- Philosophie et esthétique --- Philosophie et esthétique --- History and criticism --- 20th century