TY - BOOK AU - Bonds,Mark Evan ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Music as thought: listening to the symphony in the age of Beethoven AV - ML1255 .B68 2006eb U1 - 784.2/18409034 22 PY - 2006/// CY - Princeton, N.J. PB - Princeton University Press KW - Symphony KW - 19th century KW - Music appreciation KW - Music KW - Philosophy and aesthetics KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [153]-166) and index; 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; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10284077 ER -