Matthew Riley

Musical Listening in the German Enlightenment

Attention, Wonder and Astonishment

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The silent attentiveness expected of concert audiences is one of the most distinctive characteristics of modern Western musical culture. This is the first book properly 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. Matthew Riley examines the significant writers on the topic (Descartes, Leibniz, Wolff, Baumgarten, Rousseau, Meier, Sulzer and Forkel) and provides analytical case studies to illustrate how these perceived modes of attention shaped interpretations of music of the period.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 286g
• ISBN-13: 9781138274617
• ISBN-10: 1138274615
• Artikelnr.: 57039565

Autorenporträt

Matthew Riley

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction
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. Interlude: Rousseau's Transports of Attention: Simultaneous and successive unities
Applications. Sulzer and the Aesthetic Force of Music: Civilizing the savage
The aesthetic force of music. Forkel on Expert and Amateur Listening Practices: Kenner 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. 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. Bibliography
Index.