Title Music and the language of love : seventeenth-century French airs / Catherine Gordon-Seifert.

Publication Info.	Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2011]
	©2011

Item Status

Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Talbott: Circulating Collection	ML270.2 .G659 2011	Available	---

Description	ix, 390 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm.
Series	Music and the early modern imagination
	Musical meaning and interpretation
	Music and the early modern imagination.
	Musical meaning and interpretation.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-367) and index.
Contents	Music and texts : an overview of the sources -- Rhetoric and meaning in the seventeenth-century French air -- Musical representations of the primary passions -- Setting the texts -- Form and style : the organization and function of expressions, syntax, and rhetorical figures -- L'art du chant : performing French airs -- Salon culture and the mid-seventeenth-century French air -- The late-seventeenth-century air and the rhetoric of distraction.
Subject	Music -- France -- 17th century -- History and criticism.
	Music.
	France.
Chronological Term	17th century
Subject	Love songs -- France -- 17th century -- History and criticism.
	Love songs.
	Love in music.
	Love in music.
ISBN	9780253354617 cloth alkaline paper
	0253354617 cloth alkaline paper