Absolute music

Here are entered works about music, generally but not exclusively instrumental, that conveys its meaning solely by its form, tempo, etc., and not by a suggestive title, a text, program, or other such extra-musical means.
URI(s)
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh98007199
- info:lc/authorities/sh98007199
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh98007199#concept
Instance Of
Scheme Membership(s)
- Library of Congress Subject Headings
Collection Membership(s)
- LCSH Collection - Authorized Headings
- LCSH Collection - General Collection
Variants
- Abstract music
Broader Terms
- Music--Philosophy and aesthetics
Sources
- found: Work cat.: 98-42733: Chua, D.K.L. Absolute music and the construction of meaning, 1999.
- found: New Grove dict. of music (Absolute music: This term names an ideal of musical purity, an ideal from which music has been held to depart in a variety of ways; for example, by being subordinated to words (as in song), to drama (as in opera), to some representational meaning (as in programme music), or even to the vague requirements of emotional expression)
LC Classification
- ML3854
General Notes
- Here are entered works about music, generally but not exclusively instrumental, that conveys its meaning solely by its form, tempo, etc., and not by a suggestive title, a text, program, or other such extra-musical means.
Change Notes
- 1998-11-04: new

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