Susan McClary is Professor of Music at Case Western Reserve University. She is the author of many book including Conventional Wisdom: The Content of Musical Form and Modal Subjectivities: Self-Fashioning in the Italian Madrigal, both from UC Press.

Prelude: The Music of Pleasure and Desire

Part I. The Hydraulics of Musical Desire
1. The Expansion Principle
2. Composites, or the Still-Divided Subject

Part II. Gendering Voice
3. Soprano as Fetish: Professional Singers in Early Modern Italy
4. Gender Ambiguities and Erotic Excess in the Operas of Cavalli

Part III. Divine Love
5. Libidinous Theology
6. Straining Belief: The Toccata

Part IV. Dancing Bodies
7. The Social History of a Groove: Chacona, Ciaccona, Chaconne, and the Chaconne
8. Dancing about Power, Architecture about Dancing

Part V. La Mode Française
9. Temporality and Ideology: Qualities of Motion in Seventeenth-Century French Music
10. The Dragon Cart: The Femme Fatale in Seventeenth-Century French Opera

Postlude: Toward Consolidation
Notes
Index