Desire and Pleasure in Seventeenth-century Music

By: Susan McClary

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Hardcover | 16 March 2012 | Edition Number 1

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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.

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"Passionate, learned and often thrilling." Clevelandclassical.com "Lively and engaging... [A] brilliant musical mapping of the seventeenth century." -- Tess Knighton Times Literary Supplement (TLS) "An enjoyable study... Skillfully dissected in a series of well-chosen examples." -- Patricia Howard The Musical Times "Admirably documented and researched." -- Gerald Seaman The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms

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Acknowledgments	p. vii
Prelude: The Music of Pleasure and Desire	p. I
The Hydraulics of Musical Desire
The Expansion Principle	p. 21
Composites, or the Still-Divided Subject	p. 45
Gendering Voice
Soprano as Fetish: Professional Singers in Early Modern Italy	p. 79
Gender Ambiguities and Erotic Excess in the Operas of Cavalli	p. 104
Divine Love
Libidinous Theology	p. 129
Straining Belief: The Toccata	p. 159
Dancing Bodies
The Social History of a Groove: Chacona, Ciaccona, Chaconne, and the Chaconne	p. 193
Dancing about Power, Architecture about Dancing	p. 215
La Mode Francaise
Temporality and Ideology: Qualities of Motion in Seventeenth-Century French Music	p. 241
The Dragon Cart: The Femme Fatale in Seventeenth-Century French Opera	p. 258
Postlude: Toward Consolidation	p. 275
Notes	p. 305
Index	p. 333
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