Music and the Exotic from the Renaissance to Mozart
- Author: Locke, Ralph P.
Locke's consideration of Venetian opera, French Baroque opera and eighteenth-century [operatic] comedy is detailed and insightful —
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Contents
- Part I .
- Introduction A Rich and Complex Heritage:
- 1. Images and principles;
- 2. Exotic in style?: paradigms and interpretations;
- Part II . The West and its Others:
- 3. The early cultural background;
- 4. Encounters;
- Part III . Songs and Dance-Types:
- 5. Popular songs;
- 6. Dances and instrumental styles from (or 'from') elsewhere;
- Part IV . Exotic Portrayals on Stage, in Concert, in Church:
- 7. Courtly ballets;
- 8. Distinctive developments in Venice and other Italian cities and courts;
- 9. Oratorio and other religious genres;
- 10. Early opera and partly sung stage-works;
- 11. French and Italian serious opera, especially Lully and Handel;
- 12. Eighteenth-century comic operas and short danced works;
- 13. Obsession with the Middle East: from the Parisian fairs to Mozart; Afterword: a helpfully troubling term.