Bonds, Mark Evan. <br/><br/>
Music as thought :  listening to the symphony in the age of Beethoven / 
Mark Evan Bonds. 
 - Princeton,  N.J. :  Princeton University Press,  2006. 
 - 169 p. 
<br/><br/>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. HKBU library 
<br/><br/> YT2025 M09 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0691126593 9780691126593 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Symphony--19th century.<br/>Music appreciation.<br/>Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>ML1255  / B711 M 2006