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- Nineteenth-Century Opera and the Scientific Imagination
- Nineteenth-Century Opera and the Scientific Imagination
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Music Examples
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Voices
- Part II Ears
- 5 Hearing in the Music of Hector Berlioz
- 6 From Distant Sounds to Aeolian Ears
- 7 Wagner, Hearing Loss and the Urban Soundscape of Late Nineteenth-Century Germany
- Part III Technologies
- Part IV Bodies
- Bibliography
- Index
7 - Wagner, Hearing Loss and the Urban Soundscape of Late Nineteenth-Century Germany
from Part II - Ears
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 August 2019
- Nineteenth-Century Opera and the Scientific Imagination
- Nineteenth-Century Opera and the Scientific Imagination
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Music Examples
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Voices
- Part II Ears
- 5 Hearing in the Music of Hector Berlioz
- 6 From Distant Sounds to Aeolian Ears
- 7 Wagner, Hearing Loss and the Urban Soundscape of Late Nineteenth-Century Germany
- Part III Technologies
- Part IV Bodies
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
On 4 July 1878, the inhabitants of New York City quietly celebrated the festive day, with ‘no public exhibitions of fire-works, and no fire-crackers’, based on the municipal decision ‘to exclude noise and bombast on holiday occasions … because the interminable din of city life operates as a silent and impalpable force’ in citizens’ lives.
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- Nineteenth-Century Opera and the Scientific Imagination , pp. 155 - 172Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019
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