Absolute Music and the Construction of Meaning (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521027519)

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 fabric and entangled with numerous discourses, thus demonstrating the centrality of music in the construction of meaning.

Author: Daniel Chua
ISBN-10: 0521027519
ISBN-13: 9780521027519
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/02/2006
Pages: 328
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.06lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.73d