Absolute Music: The History of an Idea
- Author: Bonds, Mark Evan
Bond seeks authority and originality by way of conceptual comprehensiveness and documentary depth ... [the reader will] dervice considerable enlightenment from his trenchant and pertinent perspectives — More…
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Contents
- Introduction 7
- Part One
- Essence as Effect: To 1550 23
- 1. Orpheus and Pythagoras 23
- 2. Isomorphic Resonance 30
- Part Two
- Essence and Effect: 1550-1850 39
- 3. Expression 41
- The Separation of Powers 41
- Music and Language 48
- Music as Language 58
- Mimesis 69
- 4. Beauty 79
- 5. Form 90
- Form as Number 91
- Form as Content 98
- 6. Autonomy 103
- Material Autonomy 103
- Ethical Autonomy 108
- 7. Disclosure 112
- The Composer as Oracle 112
- Beautiful Insights 117
- Cosmic Insights 121
- Part Three
- Essence or Effect: 1850-1945 127
- 8. Wagner's Absolute Music 129
- 9. Hanslick's Pure Music 140
- Hanslick the Conventional 156
- Hanslick the Radical 171
- Hanslick the Ambivalent 181
- 10. Liszt's Program Music 205
- 11. Polemics 214
- 12. Reconciliation 231
- 13. Qualities Recast 244
- Expression 246
- Beauty 263
- Form 264
- Autonomy 278
- Disclosure 284
- Epilogue: Since 1945 292
- Appendix: Hanslick's Vom Musikalischen-Schonen:
- Early and Selected Later Reviews and Commentary 294
- Works Cited ] 304