Desire and Pleasure in Seventeenth-Century Music by Susan McClary

Desire and Pleasure in Seventeenth-Century Music

Susan McClary

360 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

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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 r...

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