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

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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Cressman, Darryl (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2016.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.