Music and the Language of Love: Seventeenth-Century French Airs - Hardcover
Music and the Language of Love: Seventeenth-Century French Airs - Hardcover
FormatBook
Language
English
ISBN-13 / SKU
9780253354617
About this item
by Catherine Gordon-Seifert (Author)
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.
Author Biography
Catherine Gordon-Seifert is Professor of Music and Chair of the Music Department at Providence College.
Number of Pages: 408
Dimensions: 1.3 x 9.4 x 6.2 IN
Publication Date: April 07, 2011
$69.91
In Stock.
Nationwide Shipping
We deliver across the USA.
Sold by
Novelly Books
