Building musical culture in nineteenth-century Amsterdam. The Concertgebouw /

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When people attend classical music concerts today, they sit and listen in silence, offering no audible reactions to what they're hearing. We think of that as normal-but, as Darryl Cressman shows in this book, it's the product of a long history of interrelationships between music, social no...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Cressman, Darryl (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2016.
Subjects:
Concertgebouw (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
1800-1899
Concerts > Netherlands > Amsterdam > History > 19th century.
Concerts > Pays-Bas > Amsterdam > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Dance & other performing arts.
HISTORY > Europe > Western.
ARCHITECTURE > General.
Concerts
Netherlands > Amsterdam
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1. The Concert Hall as a Medium of Musical Culture
  • 2. Listening, Attentive Listening, and Musical Meaning
  • 3. Patronage, Class, and Buildings for Music: Aristocratic Opera Houses and Bourgeois Concert Halls
  • 4. Acoustic Architecture before Science: Designing the Sound of the Concertgebouw
  • 5. Frisia Non Cantat: The Unmusicality of the Dutch
  • 6. Listening to Media History
  • Works Cited
  • Index of Names
  • Index of Subjects.

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