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N2  - 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 ... .
AB  - 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 ... .
T1  - Desire and pleasure in seventeenth-century music
DA  - c2012.
CY  - Berkeley :
AU  - McClary, Susan.
CN  - Proquest Ebook Central
CN  - ML194
PB  - University of California Press,
PP  - Berkeley :
PY  - c2012.
ID  - 437164
KW  - Music
KW  - Musical criticism.
SN  - 9780520952065 (electronic bk.)
TI  - Desire and pleasure in seventeenth-century music
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