Music and the language of love
Subtitle: seventeenth-century French airs
By: Catherine Gordon-Seifert
Series: Music and the early modern imagination; Musical meaning and interpretation
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780253354617
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Music and texts: an overview of the sources: A general description of the air ; The publications ; The composers ; Publications by Lambert, Bacilly, La Barre, and Le Camus: a description ; The song texts ; Poetic structure ; Style or elocution: figurative language and poetic syntax ; Poetry and rhetoric; title: Rhetoric and meaning in the seventeenth-century French air: seventeenth-century French sources on rhetoric and music ; Persuading the passions; title: Musical representations of the primary passions: The primary passions ; The agitated passions ; The modest passions ; The neutral passion ; Summary; title: Setting the texts: Painful love ; Bittersweet love ; Enticing love ; Joyous love ; Summary; title: Form and style: the organization and function of expressions, syntax, and rhetorical figures ; Form (disposition) ; The organization of expressions in short airs ; The organization of expressions in long airs ; Form in single-strophe airs ; The rhetorical sections of a piece: their function and expression ; Style (elocution): poetic structure, punctuation, and rhetorical figures; title: L'art du chant: performing French airs ; À haute voix ; The art of proper singing ; Ornamentation ; The pronunciation of seventeenth-century French ; Syllabic quantity ; Tempo ; Le mouvement ; Repeats ; Basso continuo accompaniment; title: Salon culture and the mid-seventeenth-century French air ; The French air and conversation ; Musical seductions ; Galanterie and the air: undercurrents of eroticism and lessons of morality ; Women singing airs as men; title: The late-seventeenth-century air and the rhetoric of distraction ; The air after 1670 ; Songs and the rhetoric of distraction ; Pleasure, airs, and the new rhetoric ; The legacy of Lambert, Bacilly, Le Camus, and La Barre.