01678cam a22002054a 4500008004100000020001500041020001800056040000800074050002400082100002200106245009400128260005900222300001100281505105800292505001701350518001501367650002801382650002401410650003801434051121s2006    nju      b    001 0 eng    a0691126593  a9780691126593  aSDU00aML1255bB711 M 20061 aBonds, Mark Evan.10aMusic as thought :blistening to the symphony in the age of Beethoven /cMark Evan Bonds.  aPrinceton,  N.J. :bPrinceton University Press,c2006.  a169 p.0 aPrologue. 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.0 aHKBU library  aYT2025 M09 0aSymphonyy19th century. 0aMusic appreciation. 0aMusicxPhilosophy and aesthetics.