Georgia Cowart. 2008. The Triumph of Pleasure: Louis XIV and the Politics of Spectacle. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press.
The dichotomy between pleasure, frivolity, and spectacle and rationality, profundity, and seriousness has been a major framework for scholarly understanding of Western art music. Traditional narratives of music history lionize composers who appear to eschew superfluous ornament, extravagant showman...
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Columbia University Libraries
2009-09-01
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| Series: | Current Musicology |
| Online Access: | https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/currentmusicology/article/view/5167 |