{"product_id":"absolute-music-the-history-of-an-idea-9780190851170","title":"Absolute Music The History of an Idea","description":"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYou should derive considerable enlightenment from Bonds' trenchant and pertinent perspectives. * Arnold Whittall, The Musical Times   *\u003cbr\u003e...the idea...turns out to be a big one, and Bonds rises brilliantly to his own challenge, writing an epic narrative with a masterly command of 2,500 years of music history from the mysteries of Pythagoras to the mysteries of the CIA...Bonds's concept is immaculately conceived, wonderfully lucid, beautifully organized, and elegantly written. * Music Theory Online *\u003cbr\u003eThis is an immensely informed, thoroughly documented, and detailed book, offering much to chew on during a delicious and intellectually nourishing journey through millennia of theoretical discussions about the nature of music. Readers with an interest in these matters should find Bonds' account profoundly satisfying, and his book should also provide the basis for graduate seminars on musical aesthetics. Highly recommended. * Classical.Net *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction            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-Schönen: Early and Selected Later Reviews and Commentary     294 Works Cited       ]  304","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52083812827479,"sku":"9780190851170","price":33.72,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780190851170.jpg?v=1762203900","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/absolute-music-the-history-of-an-idea-9780190851170","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}