Music's fourth wall and the rise of reflective listening / Mark Evan Bonds.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bonds, Mark Evan, author.

Series:

AMS studies in music series.

Oxford scholarship online.

AMS studies in music series

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.

Music.

Listening (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (276 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2025.

Summary:

The theatre's 'fourth wall' is the imagined barrier that separates actors on the stage from their audience. It fosters a sense of aesthetic illusion that what is happening on the stage is 'real'. Actors violate it when they draw attention to their agency as actors. Music's fourth wall functions similarly, as for example in the finale of Joseph Haydn's String Quartet, op. 33, no. 2 ("The Joke"), where repeated false endings effectively acknowledge the presence of listeners by playing with and against their expectations of closure. This kind of music encourages reflective listening.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction

1 The Pleasure of Resonance

Resonant Listening

The Pleasure Principle

2 Resonance Subverted

The Framework of Oratory

Breaking the Fourth Wall

Beyond Haydn

3 The Pleasure of Reflection

Before Kant

Kant

After Kant

4 The Prestige of Reflection

From Oratory to Poetry

Learning to Listen

Social Prestige

Epilogue: The Resilience of Resonance

Notes

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

EPILOGUE

Works Cited

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on March 24, 2025).

ISBN:

0-19-780639-2

0-19-780638-4

0-19-780640-6

OCLC:

1464948427