Music and The Language Of Love : Seventeenth-Century French Airs.

Music and The Language Of Love : Seventeenth-Century French Airs.

Gordon-Seifert, Catherine.

(Music And The Early Modern Imagination)

Indiana Univ. Press  ©2011



This book studies the simple, romantic airs popular during the French Baroque, in which a male voice seduces or criticizes his love. The author discusses the role of these airs in the society of the time, arguing that their sensuous nature provided a useful contrast to polite norms. With an introduction, notes, bibliography and index. Appendix. Music examples. Plates.

ix, 390 p.; 24 cm.
Cloth
Language: English
ISBN: 0253354617
ISBN13: 9780253354617
UPC: 9780253354617

Music and The Language Of Love : Seventeenth-Century French Airs.

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