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The goal of this book is to trace the process by which purely instrumental music - music without a text and without any suggestion of an external program - came to be perceived as a vehicle of ideas in the decades around 1800, of just how and why the act of listening came to be equated with the act of thinking.Bonds, Mark Evan is the author of 'Music As Thought Listening to the Symphony in the Age of Beethoven', published 2006 under ISBN 9780691126593 and ISBN 0691126593.
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