Title: Listening well
First published: 2009
Description: "The twelve essays in Listening Well illuminate aesthetic, educative, and evaluative strategies utilized by writers in Paris, Boston, and New York to guide listeners in confronting the challenges of musical modernity between 1764 and 1890. They interpret criticism from treatises, journals, amd newspapers for its importance in cultural history and consider the reception of major works by Beethoven and by Berlioz. The essays explore contrasting responses to new operas and symphonies by composers, librettists, authors, critics, and conductors as well as by writers including Chabanon, Lacepede, Berlioz, Urhan, D'Ortigue, Dwight, Fuller, Watson, and Hassard. Readers interested in perceptions of Classicism and Romanticism in music as they relate to French, German, and American literature and criticism will discover how audiences on both sides of the Atlantic were encouraged to listen attentively to the new and controversial in music of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries."--Jacket.
Subjects: Appreciation, Musical criticism, History, Music critics, Beethoven, ludwig van, 1770-1827, Berlioz, hector, 1803-1869, Critics, Music, french, Music, american
Places: France, United States
People: Hector Berlioz (1803-1869), Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Time periods: 19th century, 18th century
LC classification: ML403 .S33 2009