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

Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Note on Quotations, Translations, and Musical Examples
• Introduction
• 1. 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
• 2. Rhetoric and Meaning in the Seventeenth-Century French Air
• Seventeenth-Century French Sources on Rhetoric and Music
• Persuading the Passions
• 3. Musical Representations of the Primary Passions
• The Primary Passions
• The Agitated Passions
• The Modest Passions
• The Neutral Passion
• Summary
• 4. Setting the Texts
• Painful Love
• Bittersweet Love
• Enticing Love
• Joyous Love
• Summary
• 5. 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
• 6. L'Art du Chant: Performing French Airs
• A Haute Voix
• The Art of Proper Singing
• Ornamentation
• The Pronunciation of Seventeenth-Century French
• Syllabic Quantity
• Tempo
• Le Mouvement
• Repeats
• Basso Continuo Accompaniment
• 7. 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
• 8. 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
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index