Music as thought listening to the symphony in the age of Beethoven /
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| Language: | English |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
c2006.
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue. An unlikely genre : the rise of the symphony
- Listening with imagination : the revolution in aesthetics. From Kant to Hoffmann ; Idealism and the changing perception of perception ; Idealism and the new aesthetics of listening
- Listening as thinking : from rhetoric to philosophy. Listening in a rhetorical framework ; Listening in a philosophical framework ; Art as philosophy
- Listening to truth : Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. The infinite sublime ; History as knowing ; The synthesis of conscious and unconscious ; Organic coherence ; Beyond the sublime
- Listening to the aesthetic state : cosmopolitanism. The communal voice of the symphony ; The imperatives of individual and social synthesis ; The state as organism ; Schiller's idea of the aesthetic state ; Goethe's pedagogical province
- Listening to the German State : nationalism. German nationalism ; The symphony as a 'German' genre ; The performance politics of the music festival ; The symphony as democracy
- Epilogue. Listening to form : the refuge of absolute music.