ISBN: 9781107012370 - music and the exotic from the renaissance to mozart (5 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Very Good. Very Good++ in a Very Good dust jacket; Hardcover; Dust jacket is clean and intact with no tears; Very light wear to the boards with "straight" edge-corners; Unblemished textblock edges; The endpapers and text pages are all clean and unmarked; The binding is excellent with a straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Medium-Large Format (Quatro, 9.75" - 10.75" tall); 2.4 lbs; Red and blue dust jacket with title in white lettering; 2015, Cambridge University Press; 472 pages; "Music and the Exotic from the Renaissance to Mozart," by Ralph P. Locke.…

Zustand: New. In English.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 464 pages. 10.00x7.25x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - 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.…

Zustand: New. Ralph P. Locke provides fresh insights into Western culture's increasing awareness of ethnic Otherness during the years 1500-1800. Num Pages: 471 pages, 53 b/w illus. 25 music examples. BIC Classification: AVGC2; AVGC3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 256 x 182 x 28. Weight in Grams: 1084. . 2015. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…