Desire and Pleasure in Seventeenth-Century Music
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Desire and Pleasure in Seventeenth-Century Music

  1. 360 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Desire and Pleasure in Seventeenth-Century Music

About this book

In this book, Susan McClary examines the mechanisms through which seventeenth-century musicians simulated extreme affective statesā€”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 musiciansā€”whether working within the contexts of the Reformation or Counter-Reformation, Absolutists courts or commercial enterprises in Veniceā€”were able to manipulate known procedures to produce radically new ways of experiencing time and the Self.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Prelude: The Music of Pleasure and Desire
  7. Part I. The Hydraulics of Musical Desire
  8. Part II. Gendering Voice
  9. Part III. Divine Love
  10. Part IV. Dancing Bodies
  11. Part V. La Mode FranƧaise
  12. Postlude: Toward Consolidation
  13. Notes
  14. Index