03519nam a2200421 a 4500 ebr10481734 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 100527s2011 inua sb 001 0 eng d 2010022316 9780253354617 (cloth : alk. paper) 0253354617 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780253355270 9780253001962 (e-book) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)747411089 e-fr--- ML270.2 .G67 2011eb 782.4/3094409032 22 Gordon-Seifert, Catherine Elizabeth. Music and the language of love [electronic resource] : seventeenth-century French airs / Catherine Gordon-Seifert. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2011. ix, 390 p. : ill. Music and the early modern imagination Musical meaning and interpretation Includes bibliographical references 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: �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. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Music France 17th century History and criticism. Love songs France 17th century History and criticism. Love in music. Electronic books. local ebrary, Inc. Music and the early modern imagination. Musical meaning and interpretation. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10481734 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 122019 122019