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Music and the Exotic from the Renaissance to Mozart (Paperback)
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Music and the Exotic from the Renaissance to Mozart (Paperback)
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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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