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Musical Listening in the German Enlightenment: Attention, Wonder and Astonishment.(Book review)
Musical Listening in the German Enlightenment: Attention, Wonder and Astonishment. By Matthew Riley. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2004. [ix, 188 p. ISBN 0-7546-3267-9. $94.95.] Index, bibliography, music examples.
The phenomenon of listening during the eighteenth century could be of considerable interest to us at the beginning of the twenty-first century, in part because we see audiences in decline in our time, and we may actually be able to learn something from the Enlightenment. We need not necessarily link our interest in this topic to the present, since the eighteenth century in its own right generates sufficient interest. During that century the ...
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