CONTENTS

Foreword

Ascoltando, by Jean-Luc Nancy

Prelude and Address

“I’m Listening”

Chapter 1

Author’s Rights, Listener’s Rights (Journal of Our Ancestors)

Plagiarism and the obligation of truth

1757: Music and notes (at the foot of the page)

1835: A great change in our customs

1853: A listener in court

1841: Our portrait in a cartoon

Chapter 2

Writing Our Listenings: Arrangement, Translation, Criticism

Ever since there have been works . . .

Functions of arrangement

Liszt and the translators

The original in suspense

Arrangement at work (Liszt, second version)

Schumann the critic

Decline of arrangement (Why is music so hard to understand?)

Chapter 3

Our Instruments for Listening Before the Law (Second Journal Entry)

The first trial of mechanical music (Verdi on the boards)

Music in Braille

The phonograph in court

Rights for reproduction and radio broadcast

Stravinsky, Schoenberg, and pirates

The Furtwängler ruling and subsidiary laws

Trademarking a sound (Harley-Davidson in the sonic landscape)

On the right to quotation in music (John Oswald, the listener)

Chapter 4

Listening (to Listening): The Making of the Modern Ear

Types of listening (Adorno’s Diagnosis)

“Listening, I follow you” (Don Giovanni)

Polemology of listening (Berlioz and the art of the claque)

Ludwig van (1): attention

Ludwig van (2): deafness

Schoenberg: “to hear everything”

Epilogue

Plastic Listening

Ludwig van (3): A dialogue with Beethoven

Ludwig van (4): The “second practice” of track markers

Ludwig van (5): The prostheses of authenticity

Hearing listening: summation of listening(s)

Notes