Music and the Exotic from the Renaissance to Mozart

ISBN-13: 9781108448413 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 471 str.

Ralph P. Locke

Opis

Ralph P. Locke provides fresh insights into Western culture's increasing awareness of ethnic Otherness during the years 1500-1800.

Recenzje

'A much-needed addition to the literature. It is the first sustained study of specific [exoticist] works composed during the years 1500–1800, while it also highlights broader trends in composers' approaches to the exotic and audiences' reception of their music … Locke's book, along with his Musical Exoticism [Cambridge 2009], thus essentially redefines the exotic in relation to music and provides a model for how scholars might interpret it. … Among Locke's most insightful chapters are those treating eighteenth-century staged works. … Locke approaches [Mozart's operas] from new angles and offers fresh, thought-provoking insights into them. Engagingly written, free of jargon and lavishly illustrated with reproductions of many artworks that are little known and not readily available. … Indispensable to anyone interested in investigating exoticism in early music.' Catherine Mayes, Eighteenth-Century Music

Spis treści

Part I. Introduction: A Rich and Complex Heritage: 1. Images and principles; 2. Exotic in style?: paradigms and interpretations; Part II. The West and its Others: 3. The early cultural background; 4. Encounters; Part III. Songs and Dance-Types: 5. Popular songs; 6. Dances and instrumental styles from (or 'from') elsewhere; Part IV. Exotic Portrayals on Stage, in Concert, in Church: 7. Courtly ballets; 8. Distinctive developments in Venice and other Italian cities and courts; 9. Oratorio and other religious genres; 10. Early opera and partly sung stage-works; 11. French and Italian serious opera, especially Lully and Handel; 12. Eighteenth-century comic operas and short danced works; 13. Obsession with the Middle East: from the Parisian fairs to Mozart; Afterword: a helpfully troubling term.