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Listening as Spiritual Practice in Early Modern Italy
Contributor(s): Dell'antonio, Andrew (Author)
ISBN: 0520269292     ISBN-13: 9780520269293
Publisher: University of California Press
OUR PRICE:   $84.15  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: July 2011
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BISAC Categories:
- Music | Instruction & Study - Appreciation
- Music | Genres & Styles - Classical
Dewey: 781.170
LCCN: 2011005496
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.1" W x 9" (1.00 lbs) 235 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Italy
 
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Publisher Description:
The early seventeenth century, when the first operas were written and technical advances with far-reaching consequences--such as tonal music--began to develop, is also notable for another shift: the displacement of aristocratic music-makers by a new professional class of performers. In this book, Andrew Dell'Antonio looks at a related phenomenon: the rise of a cultivated audience whose skill involved listening rather than playing or singing. Drawing from contemporaneous discourses and other commentaries on music, the visual arts, and Church doctrine, Dell'Antonio links the new ideas about cultivated listening with other intellectual trends of the period: humanistic learning, contemplative listening (or watching) as an active spiritual practice, and musical mysticism as an ideal promoted by the Church as part of the Catholic Reformation.