What is it about?
Popular use of magnifying instruments introduced ideas and techniques of sensory extension into musical practice and listening in the eighteenth century.
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Why is it important?
Visual technologies played an important role in eighteenth-century musical culture and the development of romantic music aesthetics.
Perspectives
This research is further developed in Haydn's Sunrise, Beethoven's Shadow: Audiovisual Culture and the Emergence of Musical Romanticism, which won the 2017 Kenshur Prize for outstanding book in eighteenth-century studies.
Deirdre Loughridge
Northeastern University
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This page is a summary of: Magnified Vision, Mediated Listening and the ‘Point of Audition’ of Early Romanticism, Eighteenth-Century Music, August 2013, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s1478570613000043.
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