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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807194503321

Autore

McClary Susan

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2012

ISBN

1-280-11659-5

9786613520883

0-520-95206-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (356 p.)

Disciplina

780.9/032

Soggetti

Music - 17th century - History and criticism

Musical criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prelude: The Music of Pleasure and Desire -- Part I. The Hydraulics of Musical Desire -- Part II. Gendering Voice -- Part III. Divine Love -- Part IV. Dancing Bodies -- Part V. La Mode Française -- Postlude: Toward Consolidation -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 the contexts of the Reformation or Counter-Reformation, Absolutists courts or commercial enterprises in Venice-were able to manipulate known procedures to produce radically new ways of experiencing time and the Self.