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table of contents
  1. Cover
  2. Series Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Introduction. Sound Attentions
  7. Part I. Concentration
    1. Chapter 1. Colonial Concentration: Attention in Bengali Music Scholarship in 1885
    2. Chapter 2. The Attentive Eye / The Attentive Ear: Learning (and Unlearning) Focus in the Enlightenment
    3. Chapter 3. Attention and Value: Music Aesthetics as a “Science of Ought”
  8. Part II. Collectivity
    1. Chapter 4. Omniaudience and the History of the Good Listener: William Crotch’s Specimens of Various Styles of Music (1807)
    2. Chapter 5. Listening, Technique, and Attention
    3. Chapter 6. Listening in the Sĕrat Cĕnthini
  9. Part III. Ecstasy
    1. Chapter 7. Mystics and Skeptics: Joseph Segond’s Psychology of Prayer
    2. Chapter 8. Among the Aissawa: Music, Hypnosis, and Disruptions of Attention
    3. Chapter 9. Franz, Stumpf, Riemann, Kafka: Toward an Auditory Unconscious ca. 1883
  10. Part IV. Measurement
    1. Chapter 10. Salih Bey’s Sonometer: Synchronizing Audition in Ottoman Istanbul
    2. Chapter 11. The Attention Wave: Sound and Sense in Cycles ca. 1905
    3. Chapter 12. Attention in Musical Action: Theories of Attention in Early Music Psychology and Piano Pedagogy
  11. Contributors
  12. Index
  13. Acknowledgments

CONTENTS

Introduction. Sound Attentions

Francesca Brittan and Carmel Raz

PART I. CONCENTRATION

Chapter 1. Colonial Concentration: Attention in Bengali Music Scholarship in 1885

Richard David Williams

Chapter 2. The Attentive Eye / The Attentive Ear: Learning (and Unlearning) Focus in the Enlightenment

Ewan Jones

Chapter 3. Attention and Value: Music Aesthetics as a “Science of Ought”

Benjamin Steege

PART II. COLLECTIVITY

Chapter 4. Omniaudience and the History of the Good Listener: William Crotch’s Specimens of Various Styles of Music (1807)

Nicholas Mathew

Chapter 5. Listening, Technique, and Attention

Brian Kane

Chapter 6. Listening in the Sĕrat Cĕnthini

Tony Day and Sarah Weiss

PART III. ECSTASY

Chapter 7. Mystics and Skeptics: Joseph Segond’s Psychology of Prayer

Alexandra Kieffer

Chapter 8. Among the Aissawa: Music, Hypnosis, and Disruptions of Attention

Céline Frigau Manning

Chapter 9. Franz, Stumpf, Riemann, Kafka: Toward an Auditory Unconscious ca. 1883

David Trippett

PART IV. MEASUREMENT

Chapter 10. Salih Bey’s Sonometer: Synchronizing Audition in Ottoman Istanbul

Jacob Olley

Chapter 11. The Attention Wave: Sound and Sense in Cycles ca. 1905

D. Graham Burnett

Chapter 12. Attention in Musical Action: Theories of Attention in Early Music Psychology and Piano Pedagogy

Youn Kim

Contributors

Index

Acknowledgments

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