ACLS Humanities E-Book: Listening in Paris: a cultural history

Listening in Paris: a cultural history

Johnson, James H., 1960-

Year: c1995.

Publisher: University of California Press.

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table of contents

Frontmatter

Illustrations

List of Musical Examples

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. The Rendezvous of the Rich

1. Opera as Social Duty

2. Expression as Imitation

2. A Sensitive Public

3. Tears and the New Attentiveness

4. Concerts in the Old Regime

5. Harmony's Passions and the Public

3. The Exaltation of the Masses

6. Entertainment and the Revolution

7. Musical Experience of the Terror

8. Musical Expression and Jacobin Ideology

Epilogue to Part Three: Thermidor and the Return of Entertainment

4. Respectability and the Bourgeoisie

9 Napoleon's Show

10. The Theatre Italien and Its Elites

11. The Birth of Public Concerts

12. In Search of Harmony's Sentiments

13. The Social Roots of Silence

5. The Musical Experience of Romanticism

14. Operatic Rebirth and the Return of Grandeur

15. Beethoven Triumphant

16. The Musical Experience of Romanticism

Afterword

Notes

Bibliography

Index

reviews

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Title:

Listening in Paris : a cultural history / James H. Johnson.

Author:

Johnson, James H., 1960-

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Source Version:

Listening in Paris : a cultural history / James H. Johnson.
Johnson, James H., 1960-
Berkeley: University of California Press, c1995.

URL:

http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.00154

Subject Headings:

• Music -- France -- History and criticism
• Music -- Social aspects
• Music appreciation

Notes:

• Based on author's dissertation (doctoral)-- University of Chicago, 1988.
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