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Desire and pleasure in seventeenth-century music / Susan McClary.
LIBRA ML194 .M35 2012
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McClary, Susan.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Music--17th century--History and criticism.
- Music.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 340 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [2012]
- Contents:
- Part I The Hydraulics of Musical Desire
- 1 The Expansion Principle 21
- 2 Composites, or the Still-Divided Subject 45
- Part II Gendering Voice
- 3 Soprano as Fetish: Professional Singers in Early Modern Italy 79
- 4 Gender Ambiguities and Erotic Excess in the Operas of Cavalli 104
- Part III Divine Love
- 5 Libidinous Theology 129
- 6 Straining Belief: The Toccata 159
- Part IV Dancing Bodies
- 7 The Social History of a Groove: Chacona, Ciaccona, Chaconne, and the Chaconne 193
- 8 Dancing about Power, Architecture about Dancing 215
- Part V La Mode Francaise
- 9 Temporality and Ideology: Qualities of Motion in Seventeenth-Century French Music 241
- 10 The Dragon Cart: The Femme Fatale in Seventeenth-Century French Opera 258.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780520247345
- 0520247345
- OCLC:
- 756166982
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