Music and Its Lovers - an Empirical Study of Emotional and Imaginative Responses to Music

MUSIC AND ITS LOVERS- AN EMPIRICAL STUDY 0F EMOTIONAL AND IMAGINATIVE RESPONSES TO MUSIC by VERNON LEE. Originally published in 1933. Contents include: PREFACE AIMS AND METHODS 13 PART I LISTENERS AND HEARERS CHAPTER PACE I, VARIETIES OF MUSICAL EXPERIENCE 23 ii. WHAT is LISTENING 35 III. THE EMOTION OF MUSIC, iv, COMPLICATIONS AND ENTANGLEMENTS 59 v. ANCESTORS OF EMOTION 66 VI. EMOTION OF MUSIC VERSUS EMOTIONAL MUSIC 86 is VII. AESTHETIC CONTEMPLATION HIGHER PLANES 97 VIII, ACTIVE AND PASSIVE ATTENTION. A PSYCHOLOGICAL P. S. 107 IX, EPILOGUE TO LISTENERS 115 PART II EMOTIONAL RESPONSES I. THE POWERS OF SOUND-123 II. CECILIA AND CECILIANS 135 in. AMBIENCE 141 iv. CHAOS THE UNINTELLIGIBLE AND THE OVERHEARD. 150 V. INTERMITTENCE AND EVOCATION. CASE OF DONNA TEODORA 158 VI. MUSICAL MEMORY, A PSYCHOLOGICAL P. S. TO DONNA TEODORA. 167 VII. AFFECTIVE MEMORY. RIBOTS HYPOTHESIS . 1 73 VIII. REFERENCE TO HUMAN PERSONALITY. 1 92 io MUSIC AND ITS LOVERS CHAPTER PAGE EX. PARTICIPATION, INTENSIFICATION, PASS MORT AND PASSE VIVANT. ELSA AND THE VIOLINIST 3 202 x. EVOCATION OF PAST AND FUTURE HERR WOLFRAM AMIE DE GABRIELLE MME. LOUISE YOUNG PEOPLE FRANCES 2 7 XI. INTRODUCTION TO DIONYSIACS. THE CUP OF COMUS 228 xii. DIONYSIACS FRANZ PROFESSOR PAUL MASTER HUGUES P. S. ON NIETZSCHE 240 PART III IMAGINATIVE RESPONSES i. INTERPRETATION MUSIC AS A LANGUAGE 259 n. LAPSES IN LISTENING AND THINKING OF OTHER THINGS 273 III. STIMULATION OF THOUGHT POETS, NOVELISTS AND PHILO SOPHERS 28 J IV. INTERPRETATION AS METAPHOR CASE OF SPIRIDION 20 v. MYSTICAL INTERPRETATION THE MICROCOSM RESPONDING TO THE MACROCOSM THE DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY 298 VI. THE IMAGINARY COMPOSER 308 VII. THE POWER OF WORDS 325 VIII. INTERPRETATION BY EQUIVALENCE 340 DC. SUGGESTION BY MOVEMENT FRAU MARIA AND BELLA 350 X. INTERPRETATION BY AS IF . ... 359 XI. INTERPRETATION AS ALLEGORY. PICTURES SUGGESTED BY MUSIC 3 3 XII. INTERPRETATION AS DRAMA. CASE OF LADY VENETIA 383 PART IV HAS MUSIC A MEANING COLLECTIVE EXPERIMENTS SOME RESULTS OF COLLECTIVE EXPERIMENTS CONTENTS ii PART V THE COMPOSERS PHENOMENON CHAPTER PAGE I. TRANSLATION INTO MUSIC 445 II. DIVIDED ATTENTION 456 III. AESTHETIC INTEGRATION. A COMPARISON WITH OTHER ARTS 468 iv. SYNTHESIS SOME EXPERIENCES OF MY OWN 478 PART VI HOW MUSIC COMES INTO OUR LIVES I. THE STATE OF AESTHETIC CONTEMPLATION 489 II. MYSELF AS CORPUS VILE 492 in. BETTINA A DUOLOGUE ON MOZART AND BEETHOVEN 510 IV. BEING ATTUNED TO .... 517 PART VII f E GUSTIBUS . . . I. SOME PREFERENCES CLASSIFIED 5 7 II. . . . NQN EST DISPVTANDUM 543 PART VIII BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL i. BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL 551 II. SOME ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS 554 III. EXCITEMENT AS A VITAL NEED 558 rv. MUSIC VERSUS WORDS 559 ENGLISH QUESTIONNAIRE 563 INDEX 569.