• Music and the language of love : seventeenth-century French airs
  • Record Type: Electronic resources : monographic
    Title Information: seventeenth-century French airs
    Author: Gordon-SeifertCatherine Elizabeth,
    Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: Project Muse
    Place of Publication: Bloomington
    Published: Indiana University Press;
    Year of Publication: c2011
    Description: 1 online resource (ix, 390 p.)ill. :
    Series: Musical meaning and interpretation
    Subject: Love in music -
    Subject: Love songs - History and criticism - France - 17th century -
    Subject: Music - History and criticism - France - 17th century -
    Online resource: http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780253000859/
    Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [345]-367) and index
    ISBN: 9780253000859electronic bk.
    ISBN: 0253000858electronic bk.
    ISBN: 9780253354617hbk.
    ISBN: 0253354617hbk.
    Content Note: 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 -- Rhetoric and meaning in the seventeenth-century French air: Seventeenth-century Frenchsources on rhetoric and music ; Persuading the passions -- Musical representations of the primary passions: The primary passions ; The agitated passions ; The modest passions ; The neutral passion: Le contentement ; Summary -- Setting the texts: Painful love ; Bittersweet love ; Enticing love ; Joyous love ; Summary -- 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 -- L'art du chant: performing Frenchairs: A haute voix: the importance of orality ; The art of proper singing: tone and style ; Orclmentation ; The pronunciation of seventeenth-century French ; Syllabic quantity ; Tempo ; Le mouvement ; Repeats ;Basso continuo accompaniment -- 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 --The late-seventeenth-century airand 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
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