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Absolute music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Absolute music (sometimes abstract music) is a term used to describe music that is not explicitly "about" anything, non-representational or non-objective. In contrast with program music, absolute music has no words and no references to stories or images or any other kind of extramusical idea."  |  
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Island of Freedom: Johannes Brahms
Life and works of the composer with special emphasis on his movement toward absolute music during his latter years. 
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Free Essay Dispute of Self-expression in Program versus Absolute Music
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Musical Perceptions
"Perceptions about music, perceptions that affect music, perceptions colored by music, perceptions expressed by music."  |  Resolving absolute music and music drama  |  
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Phil's Music Composition Page
"We will try to understand all forms of music composition. .... 4 Define Program music, absolute music, concerto, atonal, quotation music, phase music "  |  18 + lessons  |  You'll need to scoll down the page a bit  |  Definitely worth it!  |  
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absolute music: Definition and Much More from Answers.com
"absolute music n. Instrumental music that is free of any explicit verbal reference"
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Finnish Music Information Centre
"Einar Englund and the ideal of absolute music .... Modernist approach into Finnish music, it was more of a composition method than a style factor."  |  
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La Monte Young: Towards Absolute Music  /  Article By Alex Carpenter
"prophetic expression of the composer's lifelong and uncompromising dedication to a solitary musical ambition: attaining the absolute."  |  
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Absolute Music - Late Twentieth-and Early Twenty-first-century Perspectives
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Classical Music Page
Musical Epochs:  Western Music - A Short History  |  by James L. Zychowicz  |  Scroll down to the Romantic period fr references to absolute and programme music  |  
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(Program vs. Absolute) - Magle International Music Forums
"A forum dedicated to "classical" music (from ancient and medieval music over baroque, classical, romantic and up to modern "avantgarde" / contemporary). If you have any questions related to classical music, you can ask them here."    
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Dolmetsch Online - Music Theory Online
" Musical Form - A Summary   :: Alan Belkin's Practical Guide to Composition  "
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Three Classics in the Aesthetic of Music (review by Ken Blacklock)
"Busoni is critical of so-called "absolute music" as well as "program-music. ... In other words, music composition is a kind of improvisation on paper"  |  
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Archive of Dissertation Abstracts in Music
"This archive is maintained by Geoffrey Chew, partly on the basis of material supplied by Andrew Dell'Antonio."
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Musi-Classical
adapted from Writers of the Western World: Hibbard and Frenz  |  references to absolute music 8th paragraph  |  
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Essentials of Music - Glossary
"absolute music Music that has no literary, dramatic, or pictorial program"  |  
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Classical Net Review - Haynes - The End of Early Music
"At the heart of Bruce Haynes thesis in his important new title, "The End of Early Music". is the proposition  that we should think in terms, not of "Early music" and the rest; but of "Rhetorical" music (pre-1800) and "Romantic" music (post-1800). Their purposes, techniques and substances are essentially different."  |  
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HyperMusic -- History of Classical Music: Glossary
"Music without extramusical associations, as opposed to program music. "  |  
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Absolute Music and the Construction of Meaning (New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism) 
Daniel Chua  |  book  |  
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Wagner's teachings by analogy;: His views on absolute music and of the relations of articulate and tonal speech, with special reference to "Opera and drama." A series of papers for the student
Edwin Evans  |  book  |  
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Programming the Absolute: Nineteenth-Century German Music and the Hermeneutics of the Moment
Berthold Hoeckner  |  bbok  |  
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The Idea of Absolute Music
Carl Dahlhaus   |  book  |  
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