10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ABSOLUTE MUSIC»
Discover the use of
absolute music in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
absolute music and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Idea of
Absolute Music
"Essential reading for anyone interested in the larger intellectual framework in which Romantic music found its place, a framework that to a remarkable degree has continued to shape our image of music."—Robert P. Morgan, Yale University ...
2
Absolute Music and the Construction of Meaning
This book is born out of two contradictions: first, it explores the making of meaning in a musical form that was made to lose its meaning at the turn of the nineteenth century; secondly, it is a history of a music that claims to have no ...
3
Absolute Music, Mechanical Reproduction
In this original, provocative book, Arved Ashby argues that, just as photography redefined visual art, recording technology has transformed our understanding of art music.
4
Programming the
Absolute: Nineteenth-century German
Music ...
It is a wonderful, often beautiful book."--Brian Hyer, University of Wisconsin-Madison "This is an important book that many in music will profit from confronting. It is a performative work, embodying and recreating what it wishes to argue.
5
Absolute Music: The History of an Idea
The core of this book focuses on the period between 1850 and 1945. Although the idea of pure music is as old as antiquity, the term "absolute music" is itself relatively recent.
6
Music and the Historical Imagination
In this elegant book he develops a powerful statement of what music analysis and criticism in relation to historical understanding can be.
7
Absolute Music and the Construction of Meaning
This book examines the intellectual history of instrumental music and its power to construct meaning.
8
Music and Monumentality: Commemoration and Wonderment in ...
musikalische Zeitung had outlined the institutional base, as it were, to the
Romantics' philosophical superstructure of absolute music. With the new found
confidence in music, Horace's exegi monumentum aere perennius (I have
erected a ...
9
Musical Worlds: New Directions in the Philosophy of
Music
Distinguishing "absolute" music from program music is not nearly as easy as one
might have expected. There is no sharp line between explicit and subtle program
music, or between subtle program music and music that is as unprogrammatic ...
The resultant sign is the myth: absolute music, the generator of cultural capital (
see Fig. 8.3).24 This new discursive entity (absolute music) is so natural a sign
that it hides itself as a tacit structure of knowledge. It robs the actual
circumstances ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ABSOLUTE MUSIC»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
absolute music is used in the context of the following news items.
Summer Live returns to Bournemouth Square today
... by Bournemouth TownWatch, the Town Centre BID, Absolute Music, plus local acts and artists and organisers Strawberry Fields RePresents. «Bournemouth Echo, Jul 15»
Vesica Piscis, feat. Indy album reviewer Jason Gottfried, releases …
But it's definitely absolute music, there's no subtext. Although the way Sean has arranged things, there's definitely a narrative present, which is ... «The Independent | SUindependent.com, Jun 15»
MIRC 2015: Positive response to expo
Alan Barclay, Absolute Music, added: “At the conference, Corin was excellent, as ever. He was great last year and was even better this year; ... «miPRO, Jun 15»
The Guitar as an Orchestra
FLE: Ralf, your work seems to begin with metaphysical themes: what happened to absolute music? Do you like to work from some religious or ... «The Boston Musical Intelligencer, Jun 15»
Rockport Anniversaries Artfully Observed
Ma's well-argued dialectic on Bach's third suite came with the fervor of a Transcendentalist retuning to advocate for absolute music of the ... «The Boston Musical Intelligencer, Jun 15»
Ennio Morricone announces '60 Years of Music World Tour'
Ennio Morricone has composed over 500 scores for cinema and television as well as over 100 absolute music works and is the only film ... «Front Row Reviews, Jun 15»
Arkells, Caribou and Ginger St. James take home HMA Awards
Instrument Retailer of the Year. Absolute Music Crash Landing Long & McQuade. Mountain Music Picks and Sticks ... «CBC.ca, May 15»
Album Review: 'Solo' by Nils Frahm
... listeners, Frahm strives to create an aural space, telling a story with no plot or characters through the pure narrative of absolute music. «The Independent, Apr 15»
Industry award nominees announced for Hamilton Music Awards
Absolute Music; Crash Landing; Long & McQuade; Mountain Music; Picks and Sticks. 7. Studio Engineer of the Year. Nick Blagona – Allotrope ... «CBC.ca, Apr 15»
Politics and Music
... on symbols as powerful and conceptual as the Horst-Wessel-Lied, they are separating themselves from the genre of "absolute music." Unless ... «Huffington Post, Mar 15»
