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Music and the Language of Love: Seventeenth-Century French Airs

Music and the Language of Love: Seventeenth-Century French Airs - Music and the Early Modern Imagination

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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.

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ISBN: 9780253354617
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Imprint: Indiana University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 782.42094409032
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 390
Weight: 804g
Height: 235mm
Width: 161mm
Spine width: 31mm