{"product_id":"absolute-music-and-the-construction-of-meaning-paperback-9780521027519","title":"Absolute Music and the Construction of Meaning (Paperback \/ softback) 9780521027519","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAbsolute Music and the Construction of Meaning\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book examines the intellectual history of instrumental music and its power to construct meaning.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDaniel Chua (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521027519, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 2 November 2006\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e328 pages, 11 b\/w illus.  44 music examples\u003cbr\u003e22.8 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.496 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'… has been explored by other writers before Chua, but he gives it an extra twist by setting it in the larger and longer story of Western civilisation's 'disenchantment'.' BBC Music Magazine\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis 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 history - absolute music. The book therefore writes against that notion of absolute music which tends to be the paradigm for most musicological and analytical studies. It is concerned not so much with what music is, but with why and how meaning is constructed in instrumental music and what structures of knowledge need to be in place for such meaning to exist. From the thought of Vincenzo Galilei to that of Theodore Adorno, Daniel Chua suggests that instrumental music has always been a critical and negative force in modernity, even with its nineteenth-century apotheosis as 'absolute music'.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e On the preface\u003cbr\u003e Part I. The Garden of Eden: 1. On history\u003cbr\u003e 2. On modernity\u003cbr\u003e 3. On disenchantment\u003cbr\u003e 4. On division\u003cbr\u003e 5. On opera\u003cbr\u003e 6. On machines\u003cbr\u003e 7. On space\u003cbr\u003e 8. On style\u003cbr\u003e Part II. The Fruit of Knowledge: 9. On being\u003cbr\u003e 10. On the mind\u003cbr\u003e 11. On biology\u003cbr\u003e 12. On the body\u003cbr\u003e 13. On the soul\u003cbr\u003e 14. On morality\u003cbr\u003e 15. On women\u003cbr\u003e 16. On masculinity\u003cbr\u003e 17. On independence\u003cbr\u003e 18. On heroes\u003cbr\u003e 19. On politics\u003cbr\u003e 20. On nothing\u003cbr\u003e 21. On God\u003cbr\u003e 22. On infinity\u003cbr\u003e 23. On self-deification\u003cbr\u003e 24. On invisibility\u003cbr\u003e 25. On conscious life-forms\u003cbr\u003e 26. On artificiality\u003cbr\u003e Part III. The Tower of Babel: 27. On death\u003cbr\u003e 28. On absolute music\u003cbr\u003e 29. On the beautiful and the sublime\u003cbr\u003e 30. On monuments\u003cbr\u003e 31. On the apocalypse\u003cbr\u003e 32. On the end\u003cbr\u003e 33. On suicide\u003cbr\u003e 34. On absolute drivel\u003cbr\u003e 35. On Babel\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Music [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Music\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Music%20%5BAV%5D%22\"\u003eAV\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46005256257816,"sku":"9780521027519","price":22.78,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521027519i_a95c3ae9-43a0-4fd2-9818-06d6b4de4ae1.jpg?v=1694964748","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/absolute-music-and-the-construction-of-meaning-paperback-9780521027519","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}