INDEX

absorption, 4, 8–9, 18, 21, 23, 69, 72, 77–84, 89, 194, 215, 234–40, 245

acoustics, 141, 152, 263, 282–88

aesthetic experience, 61, 82, 89, 218, 294, 313–16

affect, 55, 61–62, 69, 72, 79, 85, 89

agency, 3, 125, 253, 256, 260, 326, 329–31. See also volition

amateur vs. connoisseur (Liebhaber vs. Kenner), 6, 52, 80, 89

amplification. See sound technologies

apperception, 3, 26, 70, 159, 305, 307, 328. See also perception

arrangement (music). See transcription

Ataullah Efendi, 284, 292, 296, 300n30

attention economy, 6, 68, 144–45, 316

attentive listening, 54–59, 80, 125–28, 167, 178, 180, 253, 263, 278, 286–87, 293, 330–32

Augustine of Hippo, 47, 77–78

autonomous artwork (and music), 212, 226, 228

Bain, Alexander, 2, 30, 331

Baldwin, James Mark, 328(fig.)

Bandyopadhyay, Krishnadhan, 48, 54–64

Bandyopadhyay, Krishnamohan, 53

Bazaillas, Albert, 219–21, 226–28

Beethoven, Ludwig van, 6, 24, 228, 252–53, 258

Bell, Alexander Graham, 155

Bergson, Henri, 21, 218–21, 280, 292–96

Berlioz, Hector, 7, 12

Bernheim, Hippolyte, 233–34

Bhatkhande, Vishu Narayan, 62

Bird, William Hamilton, 136–38, 137(fig.), 140

bodily involvement, 30, 71–76, 81, 326, 331–39, 341–42. See also embodiment; haptic experience

Bolton, Thaddeus, 26, 27(fig.)

Bonnet, Charles, 85, 87–89

Bonser, Frederik G., 311, 312(fig.)

Bourdieu, Pierre, 154, 157, 159

Brahms, Johannes, 261–62(fig.)

Breithaupt, Rudolf, 335, 339

Burleigh, Harry T., 114

Burney, Charles, 130

Cage, John, 32, 127, 134

calculative listening, 29, 279, 286, 289–90

capitalism, 68, 125–27, 142

Carlyle, Thomas, 59–60

Caudhuri, Wahid Muhammad, 49

Chopin, Frédéric, 339–40(fig.)

Christianity, 105, 214, 218, 222, 225. See also religious experience

clock. See time

“cocktail party” effect, 31, 75

Cohn, Arthur Wolfgang, 95–96, 100–105

colonialism, 7, 13, 130, 136–40, 143–44, 146, 233, 245, 295, and chapter 1

comma. See tuning

comparativism, 128–29, 139, 145, 257, 264–66

concentration, 7, 215–17, 237, 239

consciousness, 220, 222–23, 226–28, 239, 256, 259, 265, 269, 292, 317–18, 327–28. See also unconsciousness

contemplation, 6, 7, 21, 64, 194, 212, 214–22

Crouigneau, Georges, 240–41

curiosity, 52, 70, 112–13

Curwen, John, 60–61, 60(fig.)

cyclic attention, 8, 305–307, 310

dance, 228, 233, 235, 239–40, 295

Darwinism. See evolution

Datta, Nabinchandra, 52

deafness, 155, 250–58, 267

deep listening, 127, 132–34

Descartes, René, 69–72, 89

Dewey, John, 108–109

dhyāna, 49, 52–53, 62, 64

Diderot, Denis, 7, 89–90

discrimination (noticing difference), 132–38, 141–46

distraction, 4–5, 7–9, 25, 47, 53, 69–71, 78–81, 89

Doutté, Edmond, 232, 239

Du Bois, W. E. B., 107, 148

Duchenne (de Boulogne), Guillaume-Benjamin-Amant, 74–77, 76(fig.)

Durkheim, Émile, 212, 222–27

ecstasy, 190–92, 194, 293, and chapters 7–9. See also trance

embodiment, 7, 14, 30, 153–57, 175n16

empiricism, 22–25, 27–30, 68–69, 75, 103, 255–56, 267–69, 287–90

epilepsy, 243, 321

epistēmē, 153, 156, 162–64, 174n4

epistemology, 2, 29, 48, 57, 136, 224, 228, 258, 288, 294

ethnography, 140–42, 213, 225–26, 258

etymology (of attention), 2, 104, 330

evolution, 30, 55, 257

experimental psychology, 4, 23, 27, 31, 68, 294, 304–308, 316–19; Masson disk, 305, 309, 311, 316, 321n3, and chapters 7 and 12. See also empiricism

exploitation, 126, 136, 144–46

Fechner, Gustav, 259, 261, 264, 305

Forkel, Johann Nikolaus, 5, 80

Foucault, Michel, 32, 175n16, 269, 308

Franklin, Benjamin, 15–17, 49

Franz, Robert, 250–58, 266–67

Fried, Michael, 72, 77–78

Freud, Sigmund, 22

functionalism, 108, 110

gamelan. See Javanese music

Geertz, Clifford, 128

Gibbons, Orlando, 136

Godowsky, Leopold, 339–40(fig.)

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 59–60, 252

Goswami, Kshetramohan, 52, 56–57

Gothic literature, 7, 244

Gratry, Auguste, 214–15

habitus, 155–156, 159, 161. See also embodiment

al-Hadi ben Issa (Sheikh al-Kamil), 232–33

hallucinations, auditory, 253–55, 257–58, 264

Hanslick, Eduard, 6, 24, 33, 252

haptic experience, 30, 88, 305, 334. See also bodily involvement; embodiment

harmonics. See overtones

Haydn, Joseph, 80, 130–31, 136, 143

headphones. See sound technologies

hearing, 156, 253–55, 257–60, 263–65, 269, 304–307, 316, 320. See also deafness; sensory experience

Heidegger, Martin, 256

Helmholtz, Hermann von, 4, 27, 69, 217, 260, 294, 305, 315, 317, 329

Hoffmann, E.T.A., 6, 228

Hogarth, Williams, 79–80

Holden, John, 23

Home, Henry (Lord Kames), 69, 82–85, 88

Hughes, Margaret Watts, 59–60

Husserl, Edmund, 97–100, 108, 110, 265–66

hypertrophy. See bodily involvement

hypnosis. See mesmerism and magnetism; trance

hysteria, 17, 243

idée fixe (Marx). See monomania

imitation, 160–62, 197, 244

imperialism. See colonialism

Indian music, 7, 13, 19, 49, 55–64, 131–33, 136–38, 146

intoxication, 234, 240, 244

Islam, 19, 181–82, 191–92, 277–78, 282, 286–88, 294–96. See also Sufism; Quran

isomorphism (of eye/ear), 72, 77–79

Jaëll, Marie, 30, 334–35

James, William, 8, 19, 29, 81, 108–109, 211–15, 227, 238, 327, 331, 341

Janotha, Natalia, 338

Javanese music, 179–80, 184–91, 192–96

Joussain, André, 220–21, 226–28

Kafka, Franz, 22, 262–67

Kames, Lord. See Home, Henry

Khan, Ahmed, 54, 58

kinesthesia, 7, 14, 85, 159–60, 189–91, 333, 336. See also bodily involvement; embodiment

knowledge, modes of, 153–54, 157–64, 174

Krishna, Daya, 63

Külpe, Oswald, 311, 328

kymograph, 304, 307, 309, 316. See also Wundt, Wilhelm

Lavatar, Johann Kaspar, 73–74, 74(fig.), 75(fig.)

Le Brun, Charles, 71–72, 73(fig.), 77, 80

linguistic communication, 102, 104

linguistics, 155, 318–19

Liszt, Franz, 18, 251–55

Locke, Alain, 95, 106–15, 110(fig.)

Locke, John, 5, 70, 82

Loo, Carle van, 77–78

Magnetism and mesmerism, 15–19, 53–54, 218, 234, 237, 239, 244, 294, and chapter 8

makam, 278, 286

Marconi, Guglielmo, 165–67, 166(fig.), 174

Marx, Adolf Bernhard, 6, 24, 130, 228

Marx, Karl, 258

Matthay, Tobias, 335, 336(fig.), 337(fig.)

Mattheson, Johann, 79

Mauss, Marcel, 154, 157, 159, 161–62, 175n16, 212, 214, 222–27

medicine, 15, 18, 152, 155, 234, 242–44

meditation, 32, 49, 52, 70, 216

Mendelssohn, Felix, 338–39

mesmerism. See magnetism

metaphysic, 211, 215, 218–22, 227–28, 259, 266

microphone. See sound technologies

Midhat, Ahmed, 284–85, 286

monomania, 7, 70–71, 73, 228

Morse code, 164–74

Morse, Samuel F. B., 9, 10(fig.)

motor activity. See bodily involvement

muscles and muscular effort. See bodily involvement

mysticism, 19, 21–23, 179, 191–94, 196–97, 232, 235, 237, 242, 295, and chapter 7

Nasir Muhammad, Phajil, 49–50, 52

Nietzsche, Friedrich, 93–94, 97, 105

notation, 52, 55, 64, 131, 140. See also transcription

obsession. See monomania

Occidentalism, 5, 63, see also colonialism

Oliveros, Pauline, 32, 134. See also deep listening

ontology, 139–41, 211, 222, 256, 292, 294

orientalism. See colonialism

Ottoman music, 29–30, 190, 277–79, 282–91

overtones, 15, 27–28, 219, 260–61, 269; undertones, 263–265, 264(fig.), 288

pain resistance, 234, 239–40

partials. See overtones

perception, 1–3, 15, 22–26, 29–30, 85–86, 157–58, 256–60, 263–65, 286–88, 304–307, 320. See also apperception; consciousness; sensory experience

Persian music and musicology, 51, 58, 190

phenomenology, 77–78, 96–110, 115, 265–66, 318

phonograph; ear-phonautograph. See sound technologies

physiognomy. See bodily involvement

Pillsbury, Walter, 309–13, 320–21, 333

plethysmograph, 23, 310, 333–34

Plowden, Sophia, 136–38, 146

poetry, 52, 57, 68–69, 84, 89, 178, 183, 190–95, 196–97, 319. See also prosody

Pope, Alexander, 82–84, 89

positivism, 8, 101, 105, 294–96

prayer, 19, 22, 183, 234

proprioception. See kinesthesia

prosody, 82–83, 89, 178, 189; onomatope, 183, 190, 200n17–18; poetic meter, 180, 183, 198n10. See also linguistics; poetry

psychology. See experimental psychology

Quran, 191, 194, 241, 278. See also Islam; Sufism

radio waves, 165, 170

rāga, 49–52, 58–59, 62

Rameau, Jean-Philippe, 15, 27

rāsa, 61, 62–63

Reichardt, Johann Friedrich, 252

Reid, Thomas, 1, 5, 69, 81, 84–89, 91–92

religious experience, 114–15, 178–83, 190–92, 211–15, 222–29, 234, 237–38. See also Christianity; mysticism; prayer; Sufism

resonators, 23, 27, 164, 165(fig.), 283

rhythm, 23, 25–26, 81, 215–20, 240–41, 305–308, 306(fig.), 310–15; See also tāla

Ribot, Théodule, 8, 19–21, 81, 217, 237, 294, 333

Riemann, Hugo, 86, 262–67, 288

Robeson, Paul, 113

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 15, 84, 88

Sabatier, Auguste, 213–14, 218

samā, 178, 190–95, 197, 278, 292

Scheler, Max, 100, 105–106, 108, 110–11

Schenker, Heinrich, 227–28

Schoenberg, Arnold, 227–28

Schopenhauer, Arthur, 142, 211, 219–20, 227–28

Schubert, Franz, 8, 252

Schumann, Robert, 8, 251–52

Scott, Walter Dill, 316, 317(fig.)

Seashore, Carl, 314(fig.)–316

self-mutilation. See pain resistance

sensation. See sensory experience

sensory experience, 3–7, 14–17, 25–26, 30, 69, 85–89, 105, 156–57, 231–37, 257–65, 269, 304–308, 317–20, 326–29, 331–38. See also bodily involvement; haptic experience; hearing

Slaughter, John W., 309(fig.)–311

slavery, 107, 112, 143

sound technologies, 31, 140, 152–56, 168–70, 315

Spiller, Gustav, 311–14

spiritualism and spirituality, 17–19, 54, 70–72, 105, 113, 127, 141, 218

spirituals (“sorrow songs”), 106–107, 111–15

standardization and universalization, 64, 131, 134, 142, 279–80, 286, 290–91

Steinhausen, Friedrich Adolf, 339–41

Sterne, Jonathan, 153–57, 163–64, 167–70. See also epistēmē; technē

Stumpf, Carl, 4, 256–62

subconscious. See consciousness; unconscious

Sufism, 53, 178–79, 182–83, 190–98, 278, 292–96. See also Islam; Quran

Sully, James, 2, 30, 260, 330

Sulzer, Johann Georg, 5, 80–81

synchronization. See standardization; time

Tagore, Sourindo Mohan [S. M.], 52, 55, 57–58, 63, 101

tāla, 58

Tansen, 59

tantra, 54

technē, 153, 156, 160–64, 174n4. See also epistēmē

telegraphy, 9, 11, 14, 153–54, 164–74, 165(fig.), 167(fig.), 168(fig.), 279, 290

time: calendar systems, 280–81, 290; temporal perception, 13, 24–25, 77–78, 82–83, 277–80, 291–96, and chapter 11; timekeeping and measurement, 13, 23, 277–79, and chapter 10

Titchener, Edward B., 26, 304–10, 313, 320–21, 327, 329–30(fig.)

trance, 228, 232–33. See also ecstasy

transcription (music), 112, 131, 136–40, 252. See also notation

Traube-Hering waves, 310–11, 312(fig.), 323n15

tuning, 282–83, 287–88

Turkish music. See Ottoman music

unconsciousness, 219, 226–27, 294, 328, and chapter 9. See also consciousness

universalization. See standardization and universalization

Urbantschitsch, Viktor, 26, 305, 307

ustād, 54, 58, 62

value theory, 95–101, 107–11

Van Vechten, Carl, 113

virtuosity, 163–64, 338–41

visual art, 68–69, 78

volition, 3–5, 19, 71, 155, 160, 211, 258, 263, 330, 334. See also agency

Wackenroder, Heinrich Wilhelm, 6

Wagner, Richard, 8, 142, 251–52

Weil, Simone, 22

Weld, Harry P., 333–34

will. See volition

Wordsworth, William, 142

Wundt, Wilhelm, 25–26, 28–29, 69, 305, 327

Yekta, Rauf, 277, 284–87, 289, 292, 296, 300n30