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  • Absolute Music
    Mark Evan Bonds
    What is music, and why does it move us? From Pythagoras to the present, writers have struggled to isolate the essence of "pure" or "absolute" music in ways that also account for its profound effect. In Absolute Music: The History of an Idea, Mark Evan Bonds traces the history of these efforts across more than two millennia, paying special attention to the relationship between m...
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  • Music as Thought
    Mark Evan Bonds
    Before the nineteenth century, instrumental music was considered inferior to vocal music. Kant described wordless music as 'more pleasure than culture,' and Rousseau dismissed it for its inability to convey concepts. But by the early 1800s, a dramatic shift was under way. Purely instrumental music was now being hailed as a means to knowledge and embraced precisely because of it...
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