Desire and Pleasure in Seventeenth-Century Music /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McClary, Susan (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2012.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Music
MUSIC > Genres & Styles > Classical.
MUSIC > History & Criticism.
Musique > 17e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Music > 17th century > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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