Music and the exotic from the Renaissance to Mozart / Ralph P. Locke.
| Author/creator | Locke, Ralph P. |
| Other author | American Council of Learned Societies. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York ; Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015. |
| Description | xxii, 449 pages : illustrations, music ; 25 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from ACLS Humanities E-Book |
| Subjects |
| 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 394-444) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2014043416 |
| ISBN | 9781107012370 |
| ISBN | 1107012376 |