Desire and pleasure in seventeenth-century music:
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1. Verfasser: McClary, Susan 1946- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Berkeley University of California Press 2012
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Beschreibung:In this book, Susan McClary examines the mechanisms through which seventeenth-century musicians simulated extreme affective states-desire, divine rapture, and ecstatic pleasure. She demonstrates how every major genre of the period, from opera to religious music to instrumental pieces based on dances, was part of this striving for heightened passions by performers and listeners. While she analyzes the social and historical reasons for the high value placed on expressive intensity in both secular and sacred music, and she also links desire and pleasure to the many technical innovations of the ..
Includes bibliographical references and index
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Prelude: The Music of Pleasure and Desire; Part I. The Hydraulics of Musical Desire; 1. The Expansion Principle; 2. Composites, or the Still-Divided Subject; Part II. Gendering Voice; 3. Soprano as Fetish: Professional Singers in Early Modern Italy; 4. Gender Ambiguities and Erotic Excess in the Operas of Cavalli; Part III. Divine Love; 5. Libidinous Theology; 6. Straining Belief: The Toccata; Part IV. Dancing Bodies; 7. The Social History of a Groove: Chacona, Ciaccona, Chaconne, and the Chaconne
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xi, 340 pages)
ISBN:0520952065
9780520952065

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