Desire and Pleasure in Seventeenth-Century Music
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…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-520-95206-5
- EAN: 9780520952065
- Produktnummer: 21596088
- Verlag: Vanderbilt University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 360 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 8'197 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
Über den Autor
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.
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