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The Idea of Absolute Music

Paperback • 1991 • English

The Idea of Absolute Music

By Carl Dahlhaus

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About the book

With a characteristically broad and provocative treatment, Dahlhaus examines a single music-aesthetical idea from various historical and philosophical viewpoints. "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 Carl Dahlhaus (1928-1989) is the author of a highly influential body of works on the foundatio...Show more

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ISBN

9780226134871

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Published year

1991

Language

English

Original title

The Idea of Absolute Music

Format

Paperback

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