Manos Perrakis (Editor) Manos Perrakis Andreas Dorschel (Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Graz) Andreas Dorschel Julian Johnson (Royal Holloway, University of London) Julian Johnson Kathrin Kirsch (Christian-Albrechts Universität Kiel) Kathrin Kirsch Maria João Neves (New University of Lisbon, Center of Studies of Sociology and Musical Aesthetics (CESEM)) Maria João Neves Nanette Nielsen (University of Oslo, RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rythm, Time and Motion) Nanette Nielsen Michael Spitzer (University of Liverpool) Michael Spitzer Benedict Taylor (University of Edinburgh) Benedict Taylor Markos Tsetsos (University of Athens) Markos Tsetsos Laura Tunbridge (University of Oxford) Laura Tunbridge Universal Edition: Vienna London New York The volume at hand presents an inquiry about life as an aesthetic idea of music. If music, above all purely instrumental, 'absolute' music expresses aesthetic ideas, and even the idea of the aesthetic idea itself as an affective substrate of language and culture, as Kant claimed, then the most inclusive aesthetic idea cannot be but life. No wonder then that there have been compositions ambitious enough to address this most inclusive idea and the indefinite object of life directly in their titles and programmes, such as Carl Nielsen's Fourth Symphony The Inextinguishable. If the object of life is indefinite, a necessarily complementary strategy to approach life as an aesthetic idea of music is to trace compositions addressing the aesthetic ideas closest to it. Subjectivity, process, heroism, emerging presence, eccentric positionality, virtual temporality, biography, all these are ideas that explicate, transcend, and dramatize life. PDFDocument eng 2020-04-29T07:37:21.577Z 7313154 b application/pdf http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/