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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.

Music --- anno 1500-1799 --- Exoticism in music --- Exotisme en musique --- Exotisme in muziek --- History and criticism --- 16th century --- 17th century --- 18th century --- Exoticism in music. --- Exoticism in opera. --- Opera --- Music, Exotic --- History and criticism. --- Music. --- 1500-1799.

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A Japanese geisha, a Middle Eastern caravan, a Hungarian-'Gypsy' fiddler, Carmen flinging a rose at Don Jose - portrayals of people and places that are considered somehow 'exotic' have been ubiquitous from 1700 to today, whether in opera, Broadway musicals, instrumental music, film scores, or in jazz and popular song. Often these portrayals are highly stereotypical but also powerful, indelible and touching - or troubling. Musical Exoticism surveys the vast and varied repertoire of Western musical works that evoke exotic locales. It relates trends in musical exoticism to other trends in music, such as programme music and avant-garde experimentation, as well as to broader historical developments such as nationalism and empire. Ralph P. Locke outlines major trends in exotic depiction from the Baroque era onward, and illustrates these trends through close study of numerous exotic works, including operas by Handel and Rameau, Mozart's 'Rondo alla turca', 'Madame Butterfly' and 'West Side Story'. 4e de couverture.

Exoticism in music --- Music --- Music and society --- Hermeneutics (Music) --- Musical aesthetics --- Aesthetics --- Music theory --- Criticism --- Music, Exotic --- History and criticism --- Philosophy and aesthetics --- Social aspects --- Philosophy --- 78.81 --- 78.21 --- Exoticism in music. --- Orientalism in music. --- Psychological aspects. --- Exotisme --- Orientalisme (art) --- Dans la musique.

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Music --- muziekgeschiedenis --- France --- Musique --- Muziek --- Saint-Simonianism --- Saint-simonisme --- History and criticism --- Social aspects --- Histoire et critique --- Aspect social --- Saint-Simon, Henri, --- 78.28.1 --- Saint-Simon, Henri, - comte de, - 1760-1825