Desire and pleasure in seventeenth-century music
By: Susan McClary
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780520247345
Subjects: History and criticism; Music
Description: "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. ... 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."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.