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Listening in Paris: A Cultural History Book

Listening in Paris: A Cultural History
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  • Listening in Paris: A Cultural History
  • Written by author James H. Johnson
  • Published by University of California Press, December 1996
  • Beginning with the simple question, "Why did audiences grow silent?" Listening in Paris gives a spectator's-eye view of opera and concert life from the Old Regime to the Romantic era, describing the transformation in musical experience from social
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Acknowledgments
Introduction1
1Opera as Social Duty9
2Expression as Imitation35
3Tears and the New Attentiveness53
4Concerts in the Old Regime71
5Harmony's Passions and the Public81
6Entertainment and the Revolution99
7Musical Experience of the Terror116
8Musical Expression and Jacobin Ideology137
Epilogue: Thermidor and the Return of Entertainment155
9Napoleon's Show165
10The Theatre Italien and Its Elites182
11The Birth of Public Concerts197
12In Search of Harmony's Sentiments206
13The Social Roots of Silence228
14Operatic Rebirth and the Return of Grandeur239
15Beethoven Triumphant257
16The Musical Experience of Romanticism270
Afterword281
Notes287
Bibliography349
Index379


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