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Author Luc Nancy, Jean

Title Listen : a History of Our Ears
Published Bronx : Fordham University Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (224 pages)
Contents Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; CONTENTS; FOREWORD; CHAPTER 1 Author's Rights, Listener's Rights (Journal of Our Ancestors); CHAPTER 2 Writing Our Listenings: Arrangement, Translation, Criticism; CHAPTER 3 Our Instruments for Listening Before the Law (Second Journal Entry); CHAPTER 4 Listening (to Listening): The Making of the Modern Ear; EPILOGUE Plastic Listening; NOTES
Summary In this intimate meditation on listening, Peter Szendy examines what the role of the listener is, and has been, through the centuries. The role of the composer is clear, as is the role of the musician, but where exactly does the listener stand in relation to the music s/he listens to? What is the responsibility of the listener? Does a listener have any rights, as the author and composer have copyright? Szendy explains his love of musical arrangement (since arrangements allow him to listen to someone listening to music), and wonders whether it is possible in other ways to convey to others how w
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Subject Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
Music -- History and criticism.
Musical criticism.
Music.
Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
Musical criticism.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780823228010
0823228010