Music and the language of love : seventeenth-century French airs

Content: 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 --
Rhetoric and meaning in the seventeenth-century French air: Seventeenth-century French sources on rhetoric and music 
 Persuading the passions --
Musical representations of the primary passions: The primary passions 
 The agitated passions 
 The modest passions 
 The neutral passion: Le contentement 
 Summary --
Setting the texts: Painful love 
 Bittersweet love 
 Enticing love 
 Joyous love 
 Summary --
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 --
L\'art du chant: performing French airs: À haute voix: the importance of orality 
 The art of proper singing: tone and style 
 Ornamentation 
 The pronunciation of seventeenth-century French 
 Syllabic quantity 
 Tempo 
 Le mouvement 
 Repeats 
 Basso continuo accompaniment --
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 --
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.