In this Book
- Music and the Language of Love: Seventeenth-Century French Airs
- Book
- 2011
- Published by: Indiana University Press
- Series: Music and the Early Modern Imagination
summary
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 to polite society's cultivation of chaste love, strict gender roles, and restrained discourse.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- p. xi
- Introduction
- pp. 1-9
- Chapter 4: Setting the Texts
- pp. 96-137
- Bibliography
- pp. 345-367
- Index [Includes About the Author]
- pp. 369-391
Additional Information
ISBN
9780253000859
Related ISBN(s)
9780253354617
MARC Record
OCLC
747411089
Pages
408
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No