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Author Riley, Matthew

Title Musical Listening in the German Enlightenment : ""Attention, Wonder and Astonishment ""
Published Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (199 pages)
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Plates and Figures; List of Music Examples; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Notes; 1 Attentive Listening; The Problem of Attention; The Theory and Significance of Attention: Descartes to Meier; Pleasure, Emotion and the 'Flow' Experience; Adaptation of Mimesis; Adaptation of Rhetoric; Wonder and Astonishment; Notes; 2 Interlude: Rousseau's Transports of Attention; Simultaneous and Successive Unities; Applications; Notes; 3 Sulzer and the Aesthetic Force of Music; Civilizing the Savage; The Aesthetic Force of Music; Notes
4 Forkel on Expert and Amateur Listening PracticesKenner and Liebhaber: Two Modes of Hearing; Musical Decline and Forkel's Remedy; Concert Programming: Pleasure, Amusement and Instrumental Music; A Metaphysical History of Musical Hearing; A New Approach to Attention; Notes; 5 Elements of a Rhetoric of Attention; Arousing the Attention: The Rules of Periodicity; Sustaining the Attention: A Musical Dispositio; Forkel on Music-rhetorical Figures; The Rhetoric in Practice: Georg Benda and C.P.E. Bach; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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Subject Music audiences -- Germany -- History -- 18th century
Music audiences
Germany
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781351556903
1351556908