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This research assesses the relevance of eighteenth century ideas of absolute music to understanding the articulation of meaning in contemporary artistic practice. More specifically, it proposes that issues of form and content in purely instrumental music might help understand the artistic split that occurred in the second half of the twentieth century following Conceptual Art’s rejection of the dominant formalist aesthetic paradigm...

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