Musical listening in the German Enlightenment : attention, wonder and astonishment

Musical listening in the German Enlightenment : attention, wonder and astonishment / Matthew Riley.

Author/creator	Riley, Matthew, 1975-
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Publishing Limited, ©2004.
Description	ix, 188 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Subject(s)	Music--Philosophy and aesthetics --History --18th century. Music--Germany --18th century --History and criticism. Listening.

Contents	Attentive listening -- Interlude: Rousseau's transports of attention -- Sulzer and the aesthetic force of music -- Forkel on expert and amateur listening practices -- Elements of a rhetoric of attention.
Abstract	The silent attentiveness expected of concert audiences is one of the most distinctive characteristics of modern Western musical culture. This is the first book to examine the concept of attention in the history of musical thought and its foundations in the writings of German musical commentators of the late eighteenth century.
General note	Revision of the author's thesis, with title: Attentive listening : the concept of Aufmerksamkeit and its significance in German musical thought 1770-1790 (Ph. D.)--University of London, 2000.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-184) and index.
LCCN	2003023158
ISBN	0754632679 (alk. paper)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Music	Music Stacks	ML3877 .R53 2004	✔ Available	Place Hold