TALK: Friends of the Library talk

‘Exoticism’ or ‘Orientalism’ has intrigued the European mind since the time of the Crusades, images of its sensuousness, beauty and cruelty kept alive in literature, painting and opera throughout the centuries that followed. Nowhere was this more powerfully felt than in the early 19th–century which became the centre of oriental studies. In this talk the seeds of interest in exotic music will be traced back to the 17th century and the influence that it had on music in the romantic period.

About the Speaker

Emeritus Professor David Tunley is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Music at UWA whose international reputation as a musicologist rests largely on his publications about French music from the 17th to the 19th centuries. He is also a composer who had the great fortune to study under the celebrated French musician Nadia Boulanger. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, a Chevalier in the Napoleonic Order of Palmes Académiques (for his contribution to French music), and a Member of the Order of Australia (for his contribution to music in his own country).

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