Desire and Pleasure in Seventeenth-Century Music

Susan McClary is Professor of Music at Case Western Reserve University. She is the author of many book including Conventional Wisdom: The Content of Musical Form and Modal Subjectivities: Self-Fashioning in the Italian Madrigal, both from UC Press.

• Prelude: The Music of Pleasure and Desire Part I. The Hydraulics of Musical Desire 1. The Expansion Principle 2. Composites, or the Still-Divided Subject Part II. Gendering Voice 3. Soprano as Fetish: Professional Singers in Early Modern Italy 4. Gender Ambiguities and Erotic Excess in the Operas of Cavalli Part III. Divine Love 5. Libidinous Theology 6. Straining Belief: The Toccata Part IV. Dancing Bodies 7. The Social History of a Groove: Chacona, Ciaccona, Chaconne, and the Chaconne 8. Dancing about Power, Architecture about Dancing Part V. La Mode Francaise 9. Temporality and Ideology: Qualities of Motion in Seventeenth-Century French Music 10. The Dragon Cart: The Femme Fatale in Seventeenth-Century French Opera Postlude: Toward Consolidation Notes Index

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