Tonality itself - with its process of instilling expectations and subsequently withholding promised fulfillment until climax - is the principal musical means during the period from 1600 to 1900 for arousing and channeling desire.


McClary, Susan (1991). Feminine Endings: Music, Gender, and Sexuality. Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 0816618984.

Susan McClary Quotes

Tonality itself - with its process of instilling expectations and subsequently withholding promised fulfillment until climax - is the principal...

Tonality itself - with its process of instilling expectations and subsequently withholding promised fulfillment until climax - is the principal...

Tonality itself - with its process of instilling expectations and subsequently withholding promised fulfillment until climax - is the principal...

Tonality itself - with its process of instilling expectations and subsequently withholding promised fulfillment until climax - is the principal...