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Monday, May 7, 2012

SWOTD Sieben: From Plato to College Football in Three Moves

Or maybe four. I'm not sure, I haven't finished the paper yet. Workspace time was short-lived, as I forgot my computer cord and had to head home early. So, a wider angle of the carrel.


The sentence:

In his virtuosic study Absolute Music and the Construction of Meaning, Daniel Chua reads “the expulsion of music from language” (a separation that is implicit in the division of instrumental from vocal music) as a product of Reformation-era discourses on musical aesthetics, in which the Calvinist Puritans were a significant voice.[1]



[1] Daniel Chua, Absolute Music and the Construction of Meaning (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), 23.


(I will take any opportunity, no matter how tenuous the connection to the topic at hand, to cite Chua)

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