02426nam a22003614a 4500 ebr10284077 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 051121s2006 nju sb 001 0 eng 2005034091 GBA659140 bnb 013504747 Uk 0691126593 (alk. paper) 9780691126593 (alk. paper) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)367664838 ML1255 .B68 2006eb 784.2/18409034 22 Bonds, Mark Evan. Music as thought [electronic resource] : listening to the symphony in the age of Beethoven / Mark Evan Bonds. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2006. xx, 169 p. Includes bibliographical references (p. [153]-166) and index. Prologue. An unlikely genre : the rise of the symphony -- Listening with imagination : the revolution in aesthetics. From Kant to Hoffmann ; Idealism and the changing perception of perception ; Idealism and the new aesthetics of listening -- Listening as thinking : from rhetoric to philosophy. Listening in a rhetorical framework ; Listening in a philosophical framework ; Art as philosophy -- Listening to truth : Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. The infinite sublime ; History as knowing ; The synthesis of conscious and unconscious ; Organic coherence ; Beyond the sublime -- Listening to the aesthetic state : cosmopolitanism. The communal voice of the symphony ; The imperatives of individual and social synthesis ; The state as organism ; Schiller's idea of the aesthetic state ; Goethe's pedagogical province -- Listening to the German State : nationalism. German nationalism ; The symphony as a 'German' genre ; The performance politics of the music festival ; The symphony as democracy -- Epilogue. Listening to form : the refuge of absolute music. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Symphony 19th century. Music appreciation. Music Philosophy and aesthetics. Electronic books. local ebrary, Inc. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10284077 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 2512 2512