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Musical Listening in the German Enlightenment - Attention, Wonder and Astonishment (Paperback)
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Musical Listening in the German Enlightenment - Attention, Wonder and Astonishment (Paperback)
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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 influencing the attention of a listener, citing in
illustration works by Gluck, C. P. E. Bach, Georg Benda and others.
Two types of attention were identified: the uninterrupted
experience of a single emotional state conveyed by a piece of music
as a whole, and the fleeting sense of 'wonder' or 'astonishment'
induced by a local event in a piece. The relative validity of these
two modes was a topic of heated debate in the German Enlightenment,
encompassing issues of musical communication, compositional
integrity and listener competence. 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.
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