Before the nineteenth century, instrumental music was considered
inferior to vocal music. Kant described wordless music as "more
pleasure than culture," and Rousseau dismissed it for its inability
to convey concepts. But by the early 1800s, a dramatic shift was
under way. Purely instrumental music was now being hailed as a
means to knowledge and embraced precisely because of its
independence from the limits of language. What had once been
perceived as entertainment was heard increasingly as a vehicle of
thought. Listening had become a way of knowing. Music as Thought
traces the roots of this fundamental shift in attitudes toward
listening in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Focusing on responses to the symphony in the age of Beethoven, Mark
Evan Bonds draws on contemporary accounts and a range of
sources--philosophical, literary, political, and musical--to reveal
how this music was experienced by those who heard it first. Music
as Thought is a fascinating reinterpretation of the causes and
effects of a revolution in listening.
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