Full Description
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.
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
À 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
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- 大富豪の忘れえぬ妻本編
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- 小六教育技術 2017年 4月号
