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Building Musical Culture in Nineteenth-Century Amsterdam : The Concertgebouw / Darryl Cressman.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (176 p.) : 6 halftonesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9789089649485
  • 9789048528462
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 940.2
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- 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
Summary: 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 norms, and technology. Using the example of Amsterdam's Royal Concertgebouw in the nineteenth century, Cressman shows how its design was in part intended to help discipline and educate concert audiences to listen attentively-and analysis of its creation and use offers rich insights into sound studies, media history, science and technology studies, classical music, and much more.
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Frontmatter -- 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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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 norms, and technology. Using the example of Amsterdam's Royal Concertgebouw in the nineteenth century, Cressman shows how its design was in part intended to help discipline and educate concert audiences to listen attentively-and analysis of its creation and use offers rich insights into sound studies, media history, science and technology studies, classical music, and much more.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)