Listening As Spiritual Practice In Early Modern Italy.

Explores the rise of the cultivated audience in Western music, around the time of the early 17th century. The author connects the new ideas about listening to music with other humanistic and artistic concepts of the time. With an introduction, appendix, notes, bibliography and index. A few plates.

xii, 218 p.; 24 cm.
Cloth

Language: English
ISBN: 0520269292
ISBN13: 9780520269293
UPC: 9780520269293