Music and the Exotic from the Renaissance to Mozart

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.