Music and the Language of Love: Seventeenth-Century French Airs (Book)
Title: Music and the Language of Love: Seventeenth-Century French Airs
Author: Catherine Gordon-Seifert
Abstract: 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.
Year: 2011
Primary URL: http://www.worldcat.org/title/music-and-the-language-of-love-seventeenth-century-french-airs/oclc/639940416&referer=brief_results
Primary URL Description: WorldCat
Secondary URL: http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?products_id=191368
Secondary URL Description: Indiana University Press
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780253354617

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