listening to the symphony in the age of Beethoven Bonds, Mark Evan. creator ebrary, Inc text bibliography Electronic books. nju Princeton, N.J Princeton University Press c2006 2006 monographic eng

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xx, 169 p. 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. Mark Evan Bonds. Includes bibliographical references (p. [153]-166) and index. 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 ML1255 .B68 2006eb 784.2/18409034 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10284077 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10284077 CaPaEBR 051121 ebr10284077