Professor Katharine Ellis - inaugural lecture

The Stanley Hugh Badock Chair in Music

This lecture took place on Thursday 13 February 2014

Who cares if you listen?

Silence, stillness and reverential listening: these are the defining characteristics of a well-behaved audience for western art music the world over. They are relatively recent. In this lecture, nineteenth-century Paris offers a sometimes rowdy laboratory in which to examine where, why and how a new 'gold standard' of attentiveness met its match.

Professor Katharine Ellis - inaugural lecture

Please note that due to licensing laws we are unable to play the musical extracts from Professor Ellis' lecture. The music and the point during the lecture that they were played are listed below:

• At 15 minutes 18 seconds: Beethoven Symphony no. 7 (Allegretto, 1 minute extract): John Eliot Gardiner / Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique. Record label: Archiv 439 900 - 2.
• At 33 minutes 11 seconds: Clément Janequin, 'La bataille de Marignan', Ensemble Jacques Moderne, dir. Joel Suhubiette (1 minute 45 seconds extract). Record label: Calliope 6293
• At 34 minutes 54 seconds: J.S. Bach Fantasia and Fugue in G minor BWV 542, Marie-Claire Alain (1-minute extract). Record label Erato 2564 69902-8.