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absolute music term used for music dependent on its structure alone for comprehension. It is the antithesis of program music . It is not associated with extramusical ideas or with a pictorial or narrative scheme of emotions, nor does it attempt to reproduce sounds in nature. Hence it is always instrumental, although not all instrumental music is absolute. Bach's Art of Fugue is an example of absolute music.

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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music | 1996 | | Â© The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music 1996, originally published by Oxford University Press 1996. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

absolute music. Instr. mus. which exists simply as such, i.e. not ‘programme music’, or in any way illustrative.

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abstract music. Same as absolute music. As used by Ger. writers (Abstrakte Musik), the term has a different meaning—mus. lacking in sensitivity, ‘dry’ or ‘academic’.

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