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

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter AUP eBook Package 2016-2018
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Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (176 p.) :; 6 halftones
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Other title: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.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9789048528462
9783110667318
9783110606447
9783110662931
DOI:10.1515/9789048528462?locatt=mode:legacy
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: Darryl Cressman.