01776cam a22002414a 4500 051121s2006 nju b 001 0 eng 0691126593 9780691126593 SDU ML1255 B711 M 2006 Bonds, Mark Evan. 202791 Music as thought : listening to the symphony in the age of Beethoven / Mark Evan Bonds. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2006. 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. HKBU library YT2025 M09 Symphony 19th century. 202792 Music appreciation. Music Philosophy and aesthetics. = C.1 SDU GBE lcc 106632 106632 0 0 lcc 0 ML1255 B711 M2006 0 CGB 282916 SDU SDU GEN3 2025-09-23 2 0 ML1255 B711 M 2006 1000362630 2025-09-23 00:00:00 C.1 2025-09-23 GBE