Music and the Language of Love
, by Gordon-seifert, CatherineNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780253354617 | 0253354617
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 4/7/2011
Simple songs or airs, in which a male poetic voice either seduces or excoriates a female object, were the most 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 its function and meaning 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.