Absolute Music and the Construction of Meaning

by Daniel Chua and Chua

Book Overview

This book examines the intellectual history of instrumental music, in particular the idea of absolute music. It tries to show how certain ideas in philosophy, theology and the sciences affect the meaning and, indeed, the existence of instrumental music, and how, in turn, instrumental music is used to resolve or exemplify certain problems in modern culture. Instead of existing in a pure and autonomous form, music is woven back into the epistemological...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521027519
• ISBN13: 9780521027519
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"