Listening as Spiritual Practice in Early Modern Italy

by Andrew Dell'Antonio

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520269292
• ISBN13: 9780520269293
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 235 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"