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Desire and Pleasure in Seventeenth-Century Music
Susan McClary
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Description for Desire and Pleasure in Seventeenth-Century Music
Hardback. Examines the mechanisms through which 17th-century musicians simulated extreme affective states - desire, divine rapture, and ecstatic pleasure. This book demonstrates how major genres of the period, from opera to religious music to instrumental pieces based on dances, were part of this striving for heightened passions by performers and listeners. Num Pages: 360 pages, 75 music examples. BIC Classification: 3JD; AVGC3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 162 x 28. Weight in Grams: 620.
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 within ... Read more
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 within ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
360
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Weight
620g
Number of Pages
356
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520247345
SKU
V9780520247345
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About Susan McClary
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.
Reviews for Desire and Pleasure in Seventeenth-Century Music
"Passionate, learned and often thrilling." Clevelandclassical.com "Lively and engaging... [A] brilliant musical mapping of the seventeenth century."
Tess Knighton Times Literary Supplement (TLS) "An enjoyable study... Skillfully dissected in a series of well-chosen examples."
Patricia Howard The Musical Times "Admirably documented and researched."
Gerald Seaman The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms
Tess Knighton Times Literary Supplement (TLS) "An enjoyable study... Skillfully dissected in a series of well-chosen examples."
Patricia Howard The Musical Times "Admirably documented and researched."
Gerald Seaman The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms