Building Musical Culture in Nineteenth-Century Amsterdam

Darryl Cressman received his PhD from the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University and is a lecturer in the Philosophy of Technology at Maastricht University. He has published articles on media theory and the philosophy of technology.

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Chapter One: The Concert Hall as a Medium of Musical Culture Chapter Two: Listening, Attentive Listening, and Musical Meaning Chapter Three: Patronage, Class, and Buildings for Music: Aristocratic Opera Houses and Bourgeois Concert Halls Chapter Four: Acoustic Architecture Before Science: Designing the Sound of the Concertgebouw Chapter Five: Frisia Non Cantat: The Unmusicality of the Dutch Chapter Six: Listening to Media History References Index