TY - BOOK AU - Gordon-Seifert,Catherine Elizabeth ED - Project Muse. TI - Music and the language of love: seventeenth-century French airs T2 - Musical meaning and interpretation SN - 9780253000859 AV - ML270.2 .G67 2011 U1 - 782.4/3094409032 22 PY - 2011/// CY - Bloomington PB - Indiana University Press KW - Love in music KW - Love songs KW - France KW - 17th century KW - History and criticism KW - Music KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [345]-367) and index; 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 UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780253000859/ ER -