Native American Song at the Frontiers of Early Modern Music. By Olivia Bloechl. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.

摘要

This review begins with a caveat: Although the title of this book gives the impression that Native American song is a central topic of the text, the primary theme of the narrative is how Europeans'—specifically British and French—encounters with Native peoples of North America influenced European art music of the late renaissance through the late baroque eras. Perhaps one-quarter of the book directly connects to the European experience on the ground in colonial North America, while the bulk of the writing covers Stuart court masques, the ballets and tragédies lyriques of Lully, and Rameau's operas. Bloechl does not deal with direct musical transference from one continent to the other, but rather with how written accounts and iconic representations of Native Americans affected the cultures of European art music during a time of colonial expansion and religious upheaval.