Musical Listening in the German Enlightenment: Attention, Wonder and Astonishment

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Contents: Introduction Attentive Listening: The problem of attention The theory and significance of attention: Descartes to Meier Pleasure, emotion and the 'flow' experience Adaptation of mimesis Adaptation of rhetoric Wonder and astonishment. Interlude: Rousseau's Transports of Attention: Simultaneous and successive unities Applications. Sulzer and the Aesthetic Force of Music: Civilizing the savage The aesthetic force of music. Forkel on Expert and Amateur Listening Practices: Kenner and Liebhaber: two modes of hearing Musical decline and Forkel's remedy Concert programming: pleasure, amusement and instrumental music A metaphysical history of musical hearing A new approach to attention. Elements of a Rhetoric of Attention: Arousing the attention: the rules of periodicity Sustaining the attention: a musical dispositio Forkel on music-rhetorical figures The rhetoric in practice: Georg Benda and C.P.E. Bach. Bibliography Index.

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