Listening in Paris : a cultural history / James H. Johnson.
"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 enc...
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
[1995]
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| Series: | Studies on the history of society and culture ;
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Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations
- List of Musical Examples
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Opera as Social Duty
- 2. Expression as Imitation
- 3. Tears and the New Attentiveness
- 4. Concerts in the Old Regime
- 5. Harmony's Passions and the Public
- 6. Entertainment and the Revolution
- 7. Musical Experience of the Terror
- 8. Musical Expression and Jacobin Ideology
- Epilogue: Thermidor and the Return of Entertainment
- 9. Napoleon's Show
- 10. The Theatre Italien and Its Elites
- 11. The Birth of Public Concerts
- 12. In Search of Harmony's Sentiments
- 13. The Social Roots of Silence
- 14. Operatic Rebirth and the Return of Grandeur
- 15. Beethoven Triumphant
- 16. The Musical Experience of Romanticism
- Afterword
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.