Music as thought : listening to the symphony in the age of Beethoven / Mark Evan Bonds
Imprint
Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2006
Descript
xx, 169 p. ; 25 cm
CONTENT
Unlikely genre: The rise of the symphony -- Listening with imagination: The revolution in aesthetics -- Listening as thinking: From rhetoric to philosophy -- Listening to truth: Beethoven's Fifth Symphony -- Listening to the aesthetic state: Cosmopolitanism -- Listening to the German State: Nationalism -- Listening to form : the refuge of absolute music