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Absolute music and the construction of meaning

Daniel K. L. Chua c1999 © Cambridge University Press
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Series
  • New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism
ISBN(s)
  • 9780521631815 (hardcover)
  • 9780511089015 (ebook)
Subject
  • Music & Musicology
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  • Table of Contents

  • Reviews

  • Stats

  • Frontmatter
  • List of illustrations (page ix)
  • Acknowledgements (page x)
  • On the preface (page xi)
  • Part 1 The Garden of Eden
    • 1 On history (page 3)
    • 2 On modernity (page 8)
    • 3 On disenchantment (page 12)
    • 4 On division (page 23)
    • 5 On opera (page 29)
    • 6 On machines (page 41)
    • 7 On space (page 51)
    • On style (page 61)
  • Part 2 The Fruit of Knowledge
    • 9 On being (page 75)
    • 10 On the mind (page 82)
    • 11 On biology (page 92)
    • 12 On the body (page 98)
    • 13 On the soul (page 105)
    • 14 On morality (page 114)
    • 15 On women (page 126)
    • 16 On masculinity (page 136)
    • 17 On independence (page 145)
    • 18 On heroes (page 150)
    • 19 On politics (page 162)
    • 20 On nothing (page 167)
    • 21 On God (page 171)
    • 22 On infinity (page 177)
    • 23 On self-deification (page 183)
    • 24 On invisibility (page 191)
    • 25 On conscious life-forms (page 199)
    • 26 On artificiality (page 209)
  • Part 3 The Tower of Babel
    • 27 On death (page 221)
    • 28 On absolute music (page 224)
    • 29 On the beautiful and the sublime (page 228)
    • 30 On monuments (page 235)
    • 31 On the apocalypse (page 245)
    • 32 On the end (page 257)
    • 33 On suicide (page 266)
    • 34 On absolute drivel (page 276)
    • 35 On Babel (page 287)
  • Bibliography (page 291)
  • Index (page 307)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
MAL 82.2 (May 2001): 287-291 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3526064
JAMS 57.1 (Spring 2004): 185-193 http://www.jstor.org/stable/4147809
NOT 57.2 (Dec. 2000): 360-362 http://www.jstor.org/stable/900229
JAAC 60.2 (Spring 2002):200-201 http://www.jstor.org/stable/1520025
19CM 26.2 (Autumn 2002): 184-191 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3250540
MT 141. 1871 (Summer 2000): 59-62 http://www.jstor.org/stable/1004656
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