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Ballet
Russian Francophilia
"Number 11. Tea. Allegretto in 3/4. In the Chinese taste, little bells, etc. 48 bars."
-from Maurice Petipa's instructions to Chaikovsky
The evocation of a foreign location or foreign people (through music)
"East" = Orientalism
"China" = Chinoiserie
Exoticism in the 19th Century
Exoticism in Arabian Dance
Some Conventions of Exoticism:
"No. 10. Coffee. Arabia. The kingdom of Yemen. Coffee mocha. Oriental Dance. From 24 to 32 bars of charming and voluptuous music."
-Petipa
Othering
Realism and Exoticism
“These musical gypsies become recognizable through their display of standard ethnic stereotypes, the many ways in which they differ from us: strangely passionate expression, mad verve, harshness, savagery, sad tenderness, melancholy, charming wildness, colorful independence, unregulated caprice…The actual signifying practices of ethnic musics matter little here, for what the European ear expected to hear in exotic music was its own image of difference: this music reinscribes not so much its ostensible musical model as European notions of what the Other is like.”
-Susan McClary, Georges Bizet: Carmen
Habanera
Seguidilla
"No. 10. Coffee. Arabia. The kingdom of Yemen. Coffee mocha. Oriental Dance. From 24 to 32 bars of charming and voluptuous music."
-Petipa