Music's Fourth Wall and the Rise of Reflective Listening

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Music's Fourth Wall and the Rise of Reflective Listening is written by Mark Evan Bonds and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0197806384 (ISBN 10) and 9780197806388 (ISBN 13).

Music's Fourth Wall and the Rise of Reflective Listening examines fundamental changes in concert-hall listening since the Enlightenment, with an emphasis on changing assumptions about the very act of listening itself. Author Mark Evan Bonds shows how reflective--distanced--listening, previously limited to professional musicians and connoisseurs, ousted the earlier ideal of resonant--self-forgetful--listening. And for better or worse, it is the ideal of reflective listening that has prevailed ever since.