MUSICAL LISTENING IN THE GERMAN ENLIGHTENMENT: ATTENTION, WONDER AND ASTONISHMENT.
Publisher: ASHGATE
Published: 2004
Place of publication: ALDERSHOT
Language: und; eng
Number of pages: 188
Description: "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."--Jacket.