Absolute Music and the Construction of Meaning - Paperbackby Daniel Chua (Author), Jeffrey Kallberg (Editor), Anthony Newcomb (Editor) This book examines the intellectual history of instrumental music, in particular the idea of absolute music. It tries to show how certain ideas in philosophy, theology and the sciences affect the meaning and, indeed, the existence of instrumental music, and how, in turn, instrumental music is used to resolve or exemplify certain problems in modern culture. Instead of existing