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    Absolute music : the history of an idea / Mark Evan Bonds.

    • Title:Absolute music : the history of an idea / Mark Evan Bonds.
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    • Author/Creator:Bonds, Mark Evan, author.
    • Published/Created:New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2014]
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Absolute music.
      Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.
    • Description:xiii, 375 pages ; 25 cm
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:9780199343638 (hardback)
      0199343632 (hardback)
      9780199343652 (updf)
      0199343659 (updf)
      9780199343645 (online content)
      0199343640 (online content)
    • Contents:Machine generated contents note: pt. I Essence as Effect: To 1550
      1. Orpheus and Pythagoras
      2. Isomorphic Resonance
      pt. II Essence and Effect: 1550
      1850
      3. Expression
      Separation of Powers
      Music and Language
      Music as Language
      Mimesis
      4. Beauty
      5. Form
      Form as Number
      Form as Content
      6. Autonomy
      Material Autonomy
      Ethical Autonomy
      7. Disclosiveness
      Composer as Oracle
      Beautiful Insights
      Cosmic Insights
      pt. III Essence or Effect: 1850
      1945
      8. Wagner's "Absolute" Music
      9. Hanslick's "Pure" Music
      Terminology
      Hanslick's Early Aesthetics
      Hanslick the Conventional
      Hanslick the Radical
      Hanslick the Ambivalent
      10. Liszt's "Program" Music
      11. Polemics
      12. Reconciliation
      13. Qualities Recast
      Expression
      Beauty
      Form
      Autonomy
      Disclosiveness.
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