| Description |
1 online resource (167 pages) |
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Royal Musical Association Monographs ; v. 9 |
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Royal Musical Association monographs.
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Cover; Half Page; Dedication; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Music Examples; Introduction Mozart's Orientalism, Osmin's Rage; 1. Orientalism, History, and Theatre; Representation and Power; Ottoman-Austrian Politics; Christendom under Siege; Exoticism and the Theatrical Aesthetics of the Enlightenment; 2. Mozart's Orientalism: Scope and Contexts; Türkische Musik and Alla Turca; A Turkish Topic?; 3. A Copy of a Copy: Mozart's Sources; Mozart's Earliest Turqueries; Eighteenth-Century Commentary on Music Alla Turca; A Turkish Mask |
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4. Turkish Music, Masquerade, and Self-OtheringMasquerade; The Carnivalesque; Implications for Mozart Biography; 5. Emplotting Turkish Music: Sonata in A (K. 331 / 300i); 6. Mozart Imperialisms; Mozart and Said's Orientalism: Conclusions; Imperialism and Mozart Reception; Turkish Music and Romantic Orientalism; Sources Cited; Index |
| Summary |
Matthew Head explores the cultural meanings of Mozart's Turkish music in the composer's 18th-century context, in subsequent discourses of Mozart's significance for 'Western' culture, and in today's (not entirely) post-colonial world. Unpacking the ideological content of Mozart's numerous representations of Turkey and Turkish music, Head locates the composer's exoticisms in shifting power relations between the Austrian and Ottoman Empires, and in an emerging orientalist project. At the same time, Head complicates a presentist post-colonial critique by exploring commercial stimuli to Mozart's turquerie, and by embedding the composer's orientalism in practices of self-disguise epitomised by masquerade and carnival. In this context, Mozart's Turkish music offered fleeting liberation from official and proscribed identities of the bourgeois Enlightenment |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Orientalism.
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Music -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
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Music -- Asian influences.
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Orientalism.
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Music
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Music -- Asian influences
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Orientalism
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781351555494 |
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1351555499 |
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