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Zur Geschichte der musikalischen Analyse : Bericht über die Tagung München 1993
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ISBN: 3890073166 Year: 1996 Publisher: Salzburg, Laaber,

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Analytical strategies and musical interpretation : essays on nineteenth- and twentieth-century music
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ISBN: 0521462495 Year: 1996 Publisher: Cambridge New York Cambridge University Press

Analysis through composition : principles of the classical style
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ISBN: 0198790139 Year: 1996 Publisher: Oxford Oxford university press

Listening in Paris
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ISBN: 0585249733 0520918231 9780520918238 9780585249735 0520085647 0520206487 Year: 1996 Volume: 21 Publisher: Berkeley, Calif. University of California Press

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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 life: 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.

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