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...
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| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2012
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
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.
