Desire and Pleasure in Seventeenth-Century Music

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012

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Beskrivning

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 period. McClary shows how musicians - whether working within the contexts of the Reformation or Counter-Reformation, Absolutists courts or commercial enterprises in Venice - were able to manipulate known procedures to produce radically new ways of experiencing time and the Self.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2012-03-06
Mått:152 x 229 x 33 mm
Vikt:635 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:356
Förlag:University of California Press
ISBN:9780520247345

Utforska kategorier

Klassisk musik, konstmusik och orkestermusik inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

Susan McClary is Professor of Music at Case Western Reserve University. She is the author of many book including Conventional Wisdom: The Content of Musical Form and Modal Subjectivities: Self-Fashioning in the Italian Madrigal, both from UC Press.

Recensioner i media

"Passionate, learned and often thrilling." Clevelandclassical.com "Lively and engaging... [A] brilliant musical mapping of the seventeenth century." -- Tess Knighton Times Literary Supplement (TLS) "An enjoyable study... Skillfully dissected in a series of well-chosen examples." -- Patricia Howard The Musical Times "Admirably documented and researched." -- Gerald Seaman The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms

Innehållsförteckning

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 8. Dancing about Power, Architecture about Dancing Part V. La Mode Francaise 9. Temporality and Ideology: Qualities of Motion in Seventeenth-Century French Music 10. The Dragon Cart: The Femme Fatale in Seventeenth-Century French Opera Postlude: Toward Consolidation Notes Index