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Music and the exotic from the Renaissance to Mozart /
During the years 1500-1800, European performing arts reveled in a kaleidoscope of Otherness: Middle-Eastern harem women, fortune-telling Spanish 'Gypsies', Incan priests, Barbary pirates, moresca dancers, and more. In this prequel to his 2009 book Musical Exoticism, Ralph P. Locke explores...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York ; Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I. Introduction : a rich and complex heritage. Images and principles ; Exotic in style? : paradigms and interpretations
- Part II. The West and its others. The early cultural background ; Encounters
- Part III. Songs and dance-types. Popular songs ; Dances and instrumental styles from (or "from") elsewhere
- Part IV. Exotic portrayals on stage, in concert, in church. Courtly ballets ; Distinctive developments in Venice and other Italian cities and courts ; Oratorio and other religious genres ; Early opera and partly sung stage works ; French and Italian serious opera, especially Lully and Handel ; Eighteenth-century comic operas and short danced works
- Obsession with the Middle East : from the Parisian fairs to Mozart.