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Classical music permeates modern life whether in the grocery store, on public radio, on hold on the telephone, or in traditional orchestral settings. In her provocative and groundbreaking study, Melanie Lowe explores why the public instrumental music of late-18th-century Europe has remained accessible, entertaining, and distinctly pleasurable to such a variety of listeners for nearly 250 years. "Pleasure and Meaning in the Classical Symphony" is the first work of its kind to examine how concert-going listeners of the late 18th century might have responded to this "new" repertoire, and in what ways it was intelligible to audiences from different eras, cultures, and social settings. More broadly, she also considers the effect of western European art music on 20th-century listeners and its meaning in contemporary culture.

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Book category Knihy po anglicky The arts Music Music: styles & genres

• Full title: Pleasure and Meaning in the Classical Symphony
• Author: Melanie Diane Lowe
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 240
• EAN: 9780253348272
• ISBN: 0253348277
• ID: 04871658
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Weight: 514 g
• Dimensions: 164 × 241 × 21 mm
• Date of publishing: 07. February 2007

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