Desire and pleasure in seventeenth-century music [electronic resource] / Susan McClary.

9780520952065 (electronic bk.)
0520247345
9780520247345

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2012.

English

1 online resource (xi, 340 p.) : ill., music

ML194 .M35 2012eb

780.9/032

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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