Literary sources of Nineteenth-Century musical orientalism

the hypnotic spell of the exotic on music of the Romantic period

by Jonathan David Little

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Published 2011 by Edwin Mellen Press in Lewiston, N.Y .
Written in English

Subjects:

• Oriental influences,
• Vocal music,
• Orchestral music,
• Orientalism in music,
• Music,
• Music and literature,
• History and criticism

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Edition Notes

Statement	Jonathan David Little ; with a foreword by Dolores M. Hsu
Classifications
LC Classifications	ML1420 .L58 2011
The Physical Object
Pagination	p. cm.
ID Numbers
Open Library	OL25077666M
ISBN 10	077341553X
ISBN 10	9780773415539
LC Control Number	2011014165

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Synopsis Representations of music were employed to create a wider 'Orient' on the pages, stages and walls of nineteenth-century Britain. This book explores issues of orientalism, otherness, gender and sexuality that arise in artistic British representations of non-European musicians during this time, by utilizing recent theories of orientalism, and the subsidiary (particularly aesthetic and. Orientalism in the Victorian era has origins in three aspects of 18th-century European and British culture: first, the fascination with The Arabian Nights (translated into French by Antoine Galland in ), which was one of the first works to have purveyed to Western Europe the image of the Orient as a place of wonders, wealth, mystery, intrigue, romance, and danger; second, the Romantic. "This book explores issues of orientalism, otherness, gender and sexuality that arise in artistic British representations of non-European musicians during this time, by utilizing recent theories of orientalism, and the subsidiary (particularly aesthetic and literary) theories both on which these theories were based and on which they have been influential.

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