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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781214903321

Autore

Gordon-Seifert Catherine Elizabeth

Titolo

Music and the Language of Love [[electronic resource] ] : Seventeenth-Century French Airs / / Catherine Gordon-Seifert

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2011

ISBN

1-283-23577-3

9786613235770

0-253-00085-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (409 p.)

Collana

Musical meaning and interpretation

Music and the early modern imagination

Disciplina

782.4/3094409032

Soggetti

Love in music

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

Music - France - 17th century - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [345]-367) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

Simple songs or airs, in which a male poetic voice either seduces or                excoriates a female object, were an influential vocal genre of the French Baroque                era. In this comprehensive and interdisciplinary study, Catherine Gordon-Seifert                analyzes the style of airs, which was based on rhetorical devices of lyric poetry,                and explores the function and meaning of airs in French society, particularly the                salons. She shows how airs deployed in both text and music an encoded language that                was in sensuous contrast t