TY - BOOK AU - Bonds,Mark Evan TI - Music as thought: listening to the symphony in the age of Beethoven SN - 0691126593 AV - ML1255 B711 M 2006 PY - 2006/// CY - Princeton, N.J. PB - Princeton University Press KW - Symphony KW - 19th century KW - Music appreciation KW - Music KW - Philosophy and aesthetics N1 - 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 ER -