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003    Uk 
005    20140925212237.0 
008    130816s2014    nyua     b    001 0 eng   
010    2013033095 
020    9780199343638 (hbk.)  
020    0199343632 (hbk.) 
020    |z9780199343652 (updf) 
020    |z9780199343645 (online content) 
040    StDuBDS|beng|cStDuBDS|dUk 
042    ukblsr 
082 00 781.17|223 
100 1  Bonds, Mark Evan 
245 10 Absolute music :|bthe history of an idea /|cMark Evan 
       Bonds. 
264  1 New York :|bOxford University Press,|c[2014] 
300    xiii, 375 p. :|bills. ;|c25 cm. 
500    Formerly CIP.|5Uk 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0  Orpheus and Pythagoras -- Isomorphic resonance -- 
       Expression: The separation of powers ; Music and language 
       ; Music as language ; Mimesis -- Beauty -- Form: Form as 
       number ; Form as content -- Autonomy: Material autonomy ; 
       Ethical autonomy -- Disclosure: The composer as oracle ; 
       Beautiful insights ; Cosmic insights -- Wagner's 
       "absolute" music -- Hanslick's "pure" music: Hanslick the 
       conventional ; Hanslick the radical ; Hanslick the 
       ambivalent -- Liszt's "program" music -- Polemics -- 
       Reconciliation -- Qualities recast: Expression ; Beauty ; 
       Form ; Autonomy ; Disclosure ; Epilogue : since 1945. 
520    What is music, and why does it move us? From Pythagoras to
       the present, writers have struggled to isolate the essence
       of "pure" or "absolute" music in ways that also account 
       for its profound effect. In Absolute Music: The History of
       an Idea, Mark Evan Bonds traces the history of these 
       efforts across more than two millennia, paying special 
       attention to the relationship between music's essence and 
       its qualities of form, expression, beauty, autonomy, as 
       well as its perceived capacity to disclose philosophical 
       truths. The core of this book focuses on the period 
       between 1850 and 1945. 
600 10 Hanslick, Eduard,|d1825-1904. 
650  0 Absolute music. 
650  0 Music|xPhilosophy and aesthetics.