Absolute music" is a form-play without poetic program, in which the form is intended to have the leading part.
But Form, in itself, is the opposite pole of absolute music, on which was bestowed the divine prerogative of buoyancy, of freedom from the limitations of matter.
The tendency of composers of absolute music at present is to make less and less use of the strict classic forms.
The conception of a melody in three sections, of which the first and third are the same and the middle one strongly contrasting, belongs to the realm of absolute music.
For that they praised him, as if it were a sine qua non of absolute music that it should be in the sonata form.
Having mentioned Programme music I must, of course, try to tell what it is; but the exposition must be preceded by an explanation of a kind of music which, because of its chastity, is set down as the finest form of absolute music.
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