Musical Listening in the German Enlightenment: Attention, Wonder and Astonishment

by Matthew Riley

Book Overview

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. Those critics explained numerous technical features of the music of their time as devices for arousing, sustaining or otherwise...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0754632679
• ISBN13: 9780754632672
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"