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23%OFFAndrew Dell´antonio - Listening as Spiritual Practice in Early Modern Italy - 9780520269293 - V9780520269293
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Listening as Spiritual Practice in Early Modern Italy

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Description for Listening as Spiritual Practice in Early Modern Italy Hardback. Links ideas about cultivated listening with other intellectual trends of the early seventeenth century: 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. Num Pages: 235 pages, 2 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JD; AVGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 458. 235 pages, Illustrations. Links ideas about cultivated listening with other intellectual trends of the early seventeenth century: 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. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JD; AVGC. Dimension: 235 x 153 x 20. Weight: 458.
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, ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
235
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Weight
458g
Number of Pages
235
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520269293
SKU
V9780520269293
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Ref
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About Andrew Dell´antonio
Andrew Dell'Antonio is Professor in the Musicology/Ethnomusicology Division at the University of Texas at Austin, Butler School of Music. He is a former Mellon Fellow at the Harvard-Villa I Tatti Center for Italian Renaissance Studies and the editor of Beyond Structural Listening? Postmodern Modes of Hearing (UC Press).

Reviews for Listening as Spiritual Practice in Early Modern Italy
"Listening as Spiritual Practice aligns in new ways many of our understandings of early modern musical culture."
Jennifer Thomas Renaissance Quarterly

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