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

Gordon-seifert, Catherine

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ISBN 10: 0253354617 ISBN 13: 9780253354617

Casa editrice: Indiana Univ Pr, 2011

Riassunto

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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Catherine Gordon-Seifert is Professor of Music and Chair of the Music Department at Providence College.

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• Editore: Indiana Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0253354617
• ISBN 13: 9780253354617
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 390