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James H. Johnson

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Description:Beginning with the simple question, "Why did audiences grow silent?" "Listening in Paris" gives a spectator's-eye view of opera and concert life from the Old Regime to the Romantic era, describing the transformation in musical experience from social event to profound aesthetic encounter. James H. Johnson recreates the experience of audiences during these rich decades with brio and wit. Woven into the narrative is an analysis of the political, musical, and aesthetic factors that produced more engaged listening. Johnson shows the gradual pacification of audiences from loud and unruly listeners to the attentive public we know today. Drawing from a wide range of sources novels, memoirs, police files, personal correspondence, newspaper reviews, architectural plans, and the like Johnson brings the performances to the hubbub of eighteenth-century opera, the exuberance of Revolutionary audiences, Napoleon's musical authoritarianism, the bourgeoisie's polite consideration. He singles out the music of Gluck, Haydn, Rossini, and Beethoven as especially important in forging new ways of hearing. This book's theoretical edge will appeal to cultural and intellectual historians in many fields and periods.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Listening in Paris: A Cultural History (Studies on the History of Society and Culture Book 21). To get started finding Listening in Paris: A Cultural History (Studies on the History of Society and Culture Book 21), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Beginning with the simple question, "Why did audiences grow silent?" "Listening in Paris" gives a spectator's-eye view of opera and concert life from the Old Regime to the Romantic era, describing the transformation in musical experience from social event to profound aesthetic encounter. James H. Johnson recreates the experience of audiences during these rich decades with brio and wit. Woven into the narrative is an analysis of the political, musical, and aesthetic factors that produced more engaged listening. Johnson shows the gradual pacification of audiences from loud and unruly listeners to the attentive public we know today. Drawing from a wide range of sources novels, memoirs, police files, personal correspondence, newspaper reviews, architectural plans, and the like Johnson brings the performances to the hubbub of eighteenth-century opera, the exuberance of Revolutionary audiences, Napoleon's musical authoritarianism, the bourgeoisie's polite consideration. He singles out the music of Gluck, Haydn, Rossini, and Beethoven as especially important in forging new ways of hearing. This book's theoretical edge will appeal to cultural and intellectual historians in many fields and periods.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Listening in Paris: A Cultural History (Studies on the History of Society and Culture Book 21). To get started finding Listening in Paris: A Cultural History (Studies on the History of Society and Culture Book 21), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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