Ways of Listening
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2014
Pages: 714
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How do we listen to music?
How do we talk about music?
Why is music important to many people?
Does music exist in all cultures?
Do all people listen to music in the same way?
Ways of Listening is about music and ideas about music. The publication explores the different ways in which people have listened to music through history. In addition, it explores the different ways in which one can listen to music.
Unique to the market, the publication is written in the first person. While the author presents “facts", the publication is esentially a story written from a personal perspective. The publication includes many composers and philosophers, but also of contemporary
scholars.
CHAPTER 1: Introduction and Elements
CHAPTER 2: The Beginnings of the Repertoire – The Middle Ages
CHAPTER 3: The Renaissance in Music: 15th Century
CHAPTER 4: Reformation to Counter-Reformation: Sacred Music in the 16th Century
CHAPTER 5: 16th Century Secular Music: Text Painting and Emulating Speech
CHAPTER 6: 17th Century: Imitating Behavior – Untuning the Sky
CHAPTER 7: The Common Practice and the Canon
CHAPTER 8: Music as Moral Lesson: Opera, Oratorio, and the Doctrine of the Affections
CHAPTER 9: From Fugue to Functional Harmony
CHAPTER 10: Instrumental Music and the Crisis of Meaning
CHAPTER 11: The Expression of the Inner Life
CHAPTER 12: The Industrial Revolution – Music at Home
CHAPTER 13: Program Music: Giving Music Content
CHAPTER 14: Composer as Artist – The Generation of 1810
CHAPTER 15: Art and Entertainment: Opera in the 19th Century
CHAPTER 16: Absolute Music: Brahms and Hanslick
CHAPTER 17: Time and Music—Impression and Expression
CHAPTER 18: What Is Music?
APPENDIX
INDEX