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Helmholtz and the modern listener /

Steege explores Helmholtz's significance within a historical shift in the theory and practice of listening in nineteenth-century European culture.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Steege, Benjamin
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Helmholtz and the Modern Listener; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Chronology; Introduction; Henry Higgins, Professor of Phonetics; Helmholtz as modern; 1: Popular sensations; The popular impulse; Renovating musical knowledge; Sensation, interest, value; The wider campaign; 2: Refunctioning the ear; Hearing and erring; The ear and its doubles; Das körperliche Ohr (sensation); Das geistige Ohr (signification); 3: The problem of attention; Temporalities of attention; The third ear; Fixity and difference; Attention and apperception.
  • 4: Music theory as liberal progressive historyThe theory of "affinity"; The history of "affinity"; Between choice and necessity; The double choice; 5: Voices of reform; Refunctioning the voice; Helmholtz in England: the Tonic Sol-fa Society; "Natural" intonation in theory and practice; Epilogue: Helmholtz and modernism; The modernity of sensation; Helmholtzian Wagnerism?; Schoenberg's Expressionist Empfindungswelt; Max Weber and the modern listener; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.