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Author Locke, Ralph P., author.

Title Music and the exotic from the Renaissance to Mozart / Ralph P. Locke.

Publication Info. New York ; Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 449 pages) : illustrations, music
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Part I. Introduction : a rich and complex heritage. Images and principles ; Exotic in style? : paradigms and interpretations -- Part II. The West and its others. The early cultural background ; Encounters -- Part III. Songs and dance-types. Popular songs ; Dances and instrumental styles from (or "from") elsewhere -- Part IV. Exotic portrayals on stage, in concert, in church. Courtly ballets ; Distinctive developments in Venice and other Italian cities and courts ; Oratorio and other religious genres ; Early opera and partly sung stage works ; French and Italian serious opera, especially Lully and Handel ; Eighteenth-century comic operas and short danced works -- Obsession with the Middle East : from the Parisian fairs to Mozart.
Summary During the years 1500-1800, European performing arts reveled in a kaleidoscope of Otherness: Middle-Eastern harem women, fortune-telling Spanish 'Gypsies', Incan priests, Barbary pirates, moresca dancers, and more. In this prequel to his 2009 book Musical Exoticism, Ralph P. Locke explores how exotic locales and their inhabitants were characterized in musical genres ranging from instrumental pieces and popular songs to oratorios, ballets, and operas. Locke's study offers new insights into much-loved masterworks by composers such as Cavalli, Lully, Purcell, Rameau, Handel, Vivaldi, Gluck, and Mozart. In these works, evocations of ethnic and cultural Otherness often mingle attraction with envy or fear, and some pieces were understood at the time as commenting on conditions in Europe itself. Locke's accessible study, which includes numerous musical examples and rare illustrations, will be of interest to anyone who is intrigued by the relationship between music and cultural history and by the challenges of cross-cultural (mis)understanding.
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Subject Music -- History and criticism -- 16th century.
Music.
Chronological Term 16th century
Subject Music -- History and criticism -- 17th century.
Chronological Term 17th century
Subject Music -- History and criticism -- 18th century.
Chronological Term 18th century
Subject Exoticism in music.
Exoticism in music.
Exoticism in opera.
Exoticism in opera.
Chronological Term 1500-1799
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Locke, Ralph P. Music and the exotic from the Renaissance to Mozart. New York ; Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015 9781107012370 (DLC) 2014043416 (OCoLC)895030573
ISBN 9780511998157 (electronic book)
0511998155 (electronic book)
9781316318362 (electronic book)
1316318362 (electronic book)
9781107012370
1107012376