absolute music

This raises interesting points in the debate on absolute music.

But it can also stand as absolute music apart from the original situation."

Groven did not believe in the concept of absolute music.

Absolute music, in contrast, is intended to be appreciated without any particular reference to the outside world.

So strong is the association of death with the quartet that some analysts consider it to be programmatic, rather than absolute music.

Absolute music has no references to stories or images or any other kind of extramusical idea.

Although Ryelandt wrote a great deal of vocal music, his ideal was absolute music.

It is the opposite of "absolute music" which is not trying to describe anything, just the sound of the piece.

Wagner invented the phrase "absolute music" to describe the world of abstract form and structure Beethoven had created.

"Absolute music" moves listeners powerfully but not specifically.

Even absolute music may be viewed as a, "metaphor for the universe," or nature as, "perfect form."

Carl Dahlhaus describes absolute music as music without a "concept, object, and purpose".

The absolute music which I write is so exclusively musical and strictly independent of words that reciting them is not a good idea.

Martucci was an instrumentalist pur sang, taking 'absolute music' as his highest goal.

According to him, the true value of a piece of music was exclusively dependent on its value as "absolute music".

As absolute music, the Grand Duo beggars description.

And large format 3-D - like architecture, like dance, like absolute music - is a vehicle for visionaries.

He let her be music, absolute music.'

A related idea from 19th century composers, but often contested, considers absolute music as a form of divinity itself which could be evoked by music.

Apart from the main albums in the series (Absolute Music) there have also been several themed albums.

Much of his instrumental music entailed extramusical associations, and he never heard of "absolute music" in the 19th-century sense.

The Idea of Absolute Music.

Musical structure, the limits of chromatic harmony, and program music versus absolute music were the principal areas of contention.

A similarly firm supporter of absolute music, he saw himself as being part of the tradition of Beethoven and Brahms.

Absolute Music and the Construction of Meaning (Cambridge University Press, 1999)