The Idea of Absolute Music

With a characteristically broad and provocative treatment, Dahlhaus examines a single music-aesthetical idea from various historical and philosophical viewpoints.

"Essential reading for anyone interested in the larger intellectual framework in which Romantic music found its place, a framework that to a remarkable degree has continued to shape our image of music." — Robert P. Morgan, Yale University

Carl Dahlhaus (1928-1989) is the author of a highly influential body of works on the foundations of music history and aesthetics.

• Author
• Carl Dahlhaus, Roger Lustig

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 186

• Publisher
• University of Chicago Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780226134871

• Genres
• music

• Release date
• 1991