KnowraAbsolute musicLinked fromLinked fromThe 11 pages that link to Absolute music, each with the reason it gives.All 11Related 1Compared with 10Romantic musicCompared with: Its ideal of music independent of stories opposed the programmatic ambitions of many Romantics.Johannes BrahmsCompared with: Brahms’s symphonies became a central example in debates over instrumental music’s independence.Program musicCompared with: It marks the contrasting ideal of music understood through its own structure.Symphonic poemCompared with: It represents the contrasting ideal of music whose meaning rests on musical relationships alone.New German SchoolCompared with: It names the ideal the movement’s programmatic works most directly contested.Word paintingCompared with: Word painting depends on a text whose imagery gives musical gestures their particular reference.Eduard HanslickRelated: Hanslick defended the aesthetic autonomy of instrumental music.LyricsCompared with: It offers a model of musical meaning not grounded in lyrics.Tone poemCompared with: Tone poems challenged the ideal that instrumental music should remain independent of extramusical ideas.Music and emotionCompared with: It foregrounds emotion conveyed through sound rather than through lyrics or a story.Aesthetics of musicCompared with: Its claim to meaning without representation tests whether music can signify on its own.