04038nam 2200985Ia 450 991077908760332120230802004554.01-280-11659-597866135208830-520-95206-510.1525/9780520952065(CKB)2550000000084034(EBL)850697(OCoLC)775871185(SSID)ssj0000611676(PQKBManifestationID)11445575(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000611676(PQKBWorkID)10666861(PQKB)10299375(StDuBDS)EDZ0000092607(MiAaPQ)EBC850697(MdBmJHUP)muse31009(DE-B1597)520236(DE-B1597)9780520952065(Au-PeEL)EBL850697(CaPaEBR)ebr10533545(CaONFJC)MIL352088(EXLCZ)99255000000008403420111005d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrDesire and pleasure in seventeenth-century music[electronic resource] /Susan McClaryBerkeley University of California Pressc20121 online resource (356 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-520-24734-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 -- IndexIn 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.Music17th centuryHistory and criticismMusical criticism17th century musicians.amarilli.arias.bach.beethoven.beethovens fifth.classical composers.classical music history.clevelandclassical.enlightening insights on music.history of music composers.history of music.history of opera.how to write music.learning to play music.leisure reads.master piece music.musical history.musicians.musicology.ode to joy.opera and sex.religion.renaissance era.savant composers.sex and music.sex.social and historical music.timeless music.vacation reads.MusicHistory and criticism.Musical criticism.780.9/032McClary Susan1005722MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910779087603321Desire and pleasure in seventeenth-century music3694635UNINA