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Desire and Pleasure in Seventeenth-Century Music
Desire and Pleasure in SeventeenthCentury Music
Author: Susan McClary
In this book, Susan McClary examines the mechanisms through which seventeenth-century musicians simulated extreme affective states--desire, divine rapture, and ecstatic pleasure. She demonstrates how every major genre of the period, from opera to religious music to instrumental pieces based on dances, was part of this striving for heightened pas...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780520247345
ISBN-10: 0520247345
Publication Date: 2/6/2012
Pages: 360
Edition: 1
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Publisher: University of California Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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