Music and the exotic from the Renaissance to Mozart / by Locke, Ralph P.

Table of Contents: “…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.…”
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Music and the Exotic from the Renaissance to Mozart. by Locke, Ralph P.

Table of Contents: “…Representation(s) and empireHow exotic meanings are conveyed; Instrumental dances bearing an ethnic/national label; Instrumental pieces without verbal indication of ethnicity; Vocal music in operas and oratorios: meaning-centered approaches ... ; ... and meaning-neutral principles; Part II The West and its Others; 3 The early cultural background; From the Greek tragedies ... ; ... to the church fathers; Interactions with the Ottoman world; Impressions of the Middle East and Middle Easterners; 4 Encounters; A world of heathens- and its impact on Europe; Ancient Greece and Rome as models.…”
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