Music as thought: listening to the symphony in the age of beethoven
Auteur :
Bonds, Mark Evan
Éditeur :
Princeton University Press
ISBN :
9780691168050
Date de publication :
28 juil. 2015
Dimensions :
23,5 x 15,2 cm
Poids :
28 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Before the nineteenth century, instrumental music was considered inferior to vocal music. Kant described wordless music as "more pleasure than culture," and Rousseau dismissed it for its inability to convey concepts. But by the early 1800s, a dramatic shift was under way. Purely instrumental music was now being hailed as a means to knowledge and em