Music and the language of love : seventeenth-century French airs / Catherine Gordon-Seifert.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gordon, Catherine E. (Catherine Elizabeth)

Series:

Music and the early modern imagination

Musical meaning and interpretation

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--France--17th century--History and criticism.

Music.

Love songs.

France.

Love songs--France--17th century--History and criticism.

Love in music.

Physical Description:

ix, 390 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2011]

Contents:

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 French sources 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 French airs: À haute voix: the importance of orality ; The art of proper singing: tone and style ; Ornamentation ; 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 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780253354617

0253354617

OCLC:

639940416