Author:
Locke, Ralph P. author.
Imprint:New York ; Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Descriptionxxii, 449 pages : illustrations, music ; 25 cm
Note:Part I. Introduction : a rich and complex heritage. Images and principles ; Exotic in style? : paradigms and interpretations -- Part II. The West and its others. The early cultural background ; Encounters -- Part III. Songs and dance-types. Popular songs ; Dances and instrumental styles from (or "from") elsewhere -- Part IV. Exotic portrayals on stage, in concert, in church. 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.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 394-444) and index.
