Format:
1 Online-Ressource (457 pages)
ISBN:
9780190061777
Content:
This landmark book not only offers the first account of the history of emotion in Western music, with a broad sweep from Gregorian chant to Beyoncé, but also lays out an original theory for understanding musical emotion that centers the work of composers and performers.
Content:
Cover -- A History of Emotion in Western Music -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: "Why Not?" -- I THE THEORY -- 1. Concepts -- The Aim of the Book -- What Is Emotion? -- From Emotion to Musical Emotion -- The Will of the Tones -- The Age of Anxiety -- Against Expectation: An Alternative View and an Example -- Getting Appraisal Right -- Entäusserung: A Summary, a Theory, and an Example -- Prospects -- 2. Categories -- Revisiting the Circumplex -- Processing Styles in Bach -- From Labels to Worlds -- Happiness -- Anger -- Sadness -- Love -- Fear -- 3. Compounds -- Display Rules -- Basic and Complex Emotions -- Wonder and the Sublime -- Nostalgia and Hope -- Pride and Shame -- Jealousy and Envy -- Disgust and Boredom -- 4. Histories -- Emotion or Expression? -- Affective Realism -- The History of History of Emotion -- The Hydraulic Model: Norbert Elias -- Emotional Communities: Barbara Rosenwein -- Emotives: William Reddy -- The Emotional Habitus -- The Cross-Cultural Habitus -- Habitus as Performance -- An Example: Performing Bach's Sonata -- II THE NARRATIVE Before Emotion -- 5. The Augustinian Ascent -- The Emotion of Chant -- Two Emotional Communities: Rupertsberg and Saint Victoire -- Hildegard of Bingen -- Hugh of Saint Victoire -- The Thomist Descent -- Hope in Machaut -- The Pity of Dufay -- Humanism -- Neoplatonism -- The Hydraulic Model -- Renaissance Self-Fashioning and Liquefaction -- Anger and Grief Management at Ferrara -- The Swerve -- Atomism in the Madrigal -- Climax and Fall -- The Age of Affective Realism -- 6. Passions -- The Age of Descartes and Spinoza -- The Invention of Entäusserung -- Vivaldi and Exteriority -- Bach and Interiority -- Sublime Handel -- The Wonder of Rameau -- 7. Sentiments -- Hume and Smith: De-Centering Passion -- The Geography of the Classical Style.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780190061753
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Spitzer, Michael A history of emotion in western music New York : Oxford University Press, 2020 ISBN 9780190061753
Language:
English
Keywords:
Westliche Welt
;
Musik
;
Gefühl
;
Geschichte
Author information:
Spitzer, Michael
