Desire and pleasure in seventeenth-century music [electronic resource] / Susan McClary.
McClary, Susan.
2012
ML194 .M35 2012eb
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Title Desire and pleasure in seventeenth-century music [electronic resource] / Susan McClary.
Author McClary, Susan.
ISBN 9780520952065 (electronic bk.)
0520247345
9780520247345
Imprint Berkeley : University of California Press, c2012.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xi, 340 p.) : ill., music
Call Number ML194 .M35 2012eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 780.9/032
Summary 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 ... .
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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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