Music as Thought: Listening to the Symphony in the Age of Beethoven by Mark Evan Bonds

Music as Thought: Listening to the Symphony in the Age of Beethoven

Mark Evan Bonds

169 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction history music informative reflective slow-paced
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Before the nineteenth century, instrumental music was considered inferior to vocal music. Kant described wordless music as more pleasure than culture, and Rousseau dismissed it for its inability to convey concepts. But by the early 1800s, a dramat...

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