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What is the difference between a performance of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony and the symphony itself? Lydia Goehr combines philosophical and historical methods of enquiry to show that a historical perspective is indispensable to a full understanding of musical ontology.

Music --- Arts and society --- Musique --- Arts et société --- Philosophy and aesthetics --- Philosophie et esthétique --- Arts et société --- Philosophie et esthétique --- Arts and society. --- Music, Dance, Drama & Film --- Music Philosophy

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In this new book, Lydia Goehr focuses on the history of elective affinities between philosophy and music from German classicism, romanticism, and idealism to the modernist aesthetic theory of Theodor W. Adorno and Arthur C. Danto. Aesthetic theory, she argues, depends on a dynamic philosophy of history centered on tendencies, yearnings, needs, and potentialities. With this in mind, she recasts the theses of Adorno and Danto regarding the death or end of philosophy, art, music, and human experience as arguments for continuation and survival. Elective Affinities tracks the migration of aesthetic and critical theory from Germany to the United States following the catastrophic period of the twentieth century marked by the Second World War.

Music and philosophy. --- Music --- Philosophy and aesthetics. --- Musique --- Musique et philosophie --- Philosophie et esthétique --- Aesthetics --- Esthetica --- Music and philosophy --- Hermeneutics (Music) --- Musical aesthetics --- Music theory --- Philosophy and music --- Philosophy --- Philosophy and aesthetics

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"Red Sea-red square-red thread is a work of passages taken, written, painted, and sung. It offers a genealogy of liberty through a micrology of wit. It follows a very long history of a very short anecdote. Commissioned to depict the biblical passage through the Red Sea, a painter covered over a surface with red paint, explaining thereafter that the Israelites had already crossed over and that the Egyptians were drowned. Clearly, not all you see is all you get. Who was the painter and who the first teller of the tale? Designed as a philosophical detective story, the book follows the extraordinarily many thinkers and artists who have used the Red Sea anecdote to make so much more than a merely anecdotal point. Leading the large cast are the philosophers, Arthur Danto and Søren Kierkegaard, the poet and playwright, Henri Murger, the opera composer, Giacomo Puccini, and the painter and print-maker, William Hogarth. Strange companions perhaps, until their use of the anecdote is shown as working its extraordinary passage through so many cosmopolitan cities of art and capital. What about the anecdote brings Danto's philosophy of art into conversation with Kierkegaard's stages on life's way, with Murger and Puccini's la vie de bohème, and with Hogarth's modern moral pictures? The book explores narratives of emancipation in philosophy, theology, politics, and the arts. What has the passage of the Israelites to do with the Egyptians who, by many gypsy names, came to be branded as bohemians when arriving in France from the German lands of Bohemia? What have Moses and monotheism to do with the history of monism and the monochrome? And what sort of thread connects a sea to a square when each is so purposefully named red?"--

Liberty --- Israelites crossing the Red Sea (Biblical event) --- Arts --- Crossing the Red Sea (Biblical event) --- Red Sea, Crossing of the (Biblical event) --- Red Sea, Israelites crossing of the (Biblical event) --- Exodus, The --- Jews --- Civil liberty --- Emancipation --- Freedom --- Liberation --- Personal liberty --- Democracy --- Natural law --- Political science --- Equality --- Libertarianism --- Social control --- Miscellanea --- Philosophy --- History --- Israelites crossing the Red Sea (Biblical event) - Miscellanea --- Arts - Philosophy --- 130.2 --- 246 --- 246 Art et symbolisme chretiens --- 246 Christelijke kunst en symbolisme --- Art et symbolisme chretiens --- Christelijke kunst en symbolisme --- 130.2 Filosofie van de cultuur. Cultuurfilosofie. Cultuursystemen. Kultuurfilosofie --- Filosofie van de cultuur. Cultuurfilosofie. Cultuursystemen. Kultuurfilosofie

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Music and romanticism --- Musique romantique --- Muziek [Romantische ] --- Romanticism in music --- Romantiek in de muziek --- Romantische muziek --- Romantisme en musique --- Music --- Philosophy and aesthetics --- Wagner, Richard --- Aesthetics --- 19th century --- Belgium --- Music and state --- Germany