| Description |
xvi, 305 pages, 12 pages of plates : illustrations, music ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-294) and index. |
| Contents |
pt. I. Introduction. Between violence and sensuality : orientalism in musicology -- -- pt. II. Prophets and concubines : models of violence and sensuality. The character of Muhammad : a model of violence and sensuality in the European image of the Orient -- Slaves, sultans, and seducers : the components of illusion -- -- pt. III. The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries : the contextualization of knowledge. Music as noise : barbarity, deficiency, and intrusion in Western accounts of Turkish music -- Osmin's rage meets Selim's benevolence : the Oriental other in Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail -- Two hundred years of orientalism : construction of the Orient in Wieland's, Wranitzky's, Weber's, and Burgess' Oberon -- Whirling fanatics : orientalism, politics, and religious rivalry in Western operatic representation of the Orient -- -- pt. IV. The Arabian nights in music and film. Under the spell of magic : the Oriental tale in Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade -- Reel bad Arabs, really bad lyrics : villainous Arabs in Disney's Aladdin. |
| Subject |
Orientalism in music.
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Orientalism in music. |
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Music -- History and criticism.
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Music. |
| ISBN |
9780754664697 hardcover alkaline paper |
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0754664694 hardcover alkaline paper |
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