LEADER 04486oam 22006374a 450 001 9910781214903321 005 20210114014915.0 010 $a1-283-23577-3 010 $a9786613235770 010 $a0-253-00085-8 035 $a(CKB)2550000000040057 035 $a(EBL)713660 035 $a(OCoLC)747411069 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000539336 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11360949 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000539336 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10571792 035 $a(PQKB)10467214 035 $a(OCoLC)747411089 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse17083 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC713660 035 $a(PPN)196275962 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000040057 100 $a20100527d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMusic and the Language of Love$b[electronic resource] $eSeventeenth-Century French Airs /$fCatherine Gordon-Seifert 210 $aBloomington $cIndiana University Press$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (409 p.) 225 1 $aMusical meaning and interpretation 225 1 $aMusic and the early modern imagination 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-253-35461-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [345]-367) and index. 327 $aMusic 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: A? 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. 330 $aSimple songs or airs, in which a male poetic voice either seduces or excoriates a female object, were an influential vocal genre of the French Baroque era. In this comprehensive and interdisciplinary study, Catherine Gordon-Seifert analyzes the style of airs, which was based on rhetorical devices of lyric poetry, and explores the function and meaning of airs in French society, particularly the salons. She shows how airs deployed in both text and music an encoded language that was in sensuous contrast t 410 0$aMusical meaning and interpretation. 410 0$aMusic and the early modern imagination. 606 $aLove in music 606 $aLove songs$zFrance$y17th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aMusic$zFrance$y17th century$xHistory and criticism 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aLove in music. 615 0$aLove songs$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aMusic$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a782.4/3094409032 700 $aGordon-Seifert$b Catherine Elizabeth$01519276 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910781214903321 996 $aMusic and the Language of Love$93757296 997 $aUNINA