[6] October 24 — Listening in Central and Eastern Europe
Section outline
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Assigned reading:
Anton Borkowsky, "A musical fantasy," Der Humorist (21 July 1842). [original German]
Leon Botstein, “Listening through Reading: Musical Literacy and the Concert Audience,” 19th-Century Music 16 (1992): 129–45.
Hungarian option: "Zene és közönség," Magyar Géniusz no. 52 (1895): 863-864.
Further reading:
Markian Prokopovych, In the Public Eye: The Budapest Opera House, the Audience and the Press, 1884-1918 (2014). [782.1/09/439 PRO]
Antje Pieper, Music and the Making of Middle-Class Culture: A Comparative History of Nineteenth-Century Leipzig and Birmingham (2008). [306.4/8409/4 PIE]
James H. Johnson, Listening in Paris: A Cultural History (1995).
Sven Oliver Müller, "The invention of silence: Audience Behavior in Berlin and London in the nineteenth century," in Sounds of Modern History, 153-174.
Sven Oliver Müller, “Die Politik des Schweigens. Veränderungen im Publikumsverhalten in der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts,” Geschichte und Gesellschaft 38 (2012): 48–85.
Hui, The Psychophysical Ear, 123-148.
Lynn M. Sargeant, Harmony and Discord: Music and the Transformation of Russian Cultural Life (2011). [780.9/47][click on image for source]
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