Ralph P. Locke

Music and the Exotic from the Renaissance to Mozart (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316308349
• Artikelnr.: 43075635

Autorenporträt

Ralph P. Locke is Professor and former Chair of Musicology at the University of Rochester's Eastman School of Music. His previous books are Music, Musicians, and the Saint-Simonians (1986), Musical Exoticism: Images and Reflections (Cambridge, 2009) and the co-edited Cultivating Music in America: Women Patrons since 1860 (1997). He has published numerous articles and book chapters, and contributed to major reference works, including Grove Dictionary of Music and American National Biography. His study of conceptions of the exotic Other in Verdi's opera Aida (Cambridge Opera Journal) won the H. Colin Slim Award from the American Musicological Society.

Inhaltsangabe

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.