TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cressman,Darryl
TI  - Building Musical Culture in Nineteenth-Century Amsterdam: The Concertgebouw 
SN  - 9789089649485
U1  - 940.2 
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Amsterdam : 
PB  - Amsterdam University Press, 
KW  - History, Art History, and Archaeology
KW  - Modern History
KW  - ARCHITECTURE / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Amsterdam musical culture
KW  - Concert halls
KW  - attentive listening
KW  - media history
KW  - sound studies
N1  - 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; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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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