Listening as spiritual practice in early modern Italy / Andrew Dell'Antonio.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dell'Antonio, Andrew.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Italy--17th century--History and criticism.

Music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (232 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Rapt attention

Aural collecting

Proper listening

Noble and manly understanding

Envoy : from Gusto to Goût.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613278388

9781283278386

1283278383

9780520950108

0520950100

OCLC:

739051497