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Catherine Gordon-Seifert is Associate Professor of Music and Chair of the Music Department at Providence College.
| Acknowledgments | p. xi |
| Note on Quotations, Translations, and Musical Examples | p. xiii |
| Introduction | p. 10 |
| Music and Texts: An Overview of the Sources | p. 11 |
| A General Description of the Air | p. 11 |
| The Publications | p. 12 |
| The Composers | p. 13 |
| Publications by Lambert, Bacilly, La Barre, and Le Camus: A Description | p. 17 |
| The Song Texts | p. 22 |
| Poetic Structure | p. 32 |
| Style or Elocution: Figurative Language and Poetic Syntax | p. 35 |
| Poetry and Rhetoric | p. 40 |
| Rhetoric and Meaning in the Seventeenth-Century French Air | p. 41 |
| Seventeenth-Century French Sources on Rhetoric and Music | p. 41 |
| Persuading the Passions | p. 52 |
| Musical Representations of the Primary Passions | p. 58 |
| The Primary Passions | p. 60 |
| The Agitated Passions | p. 64 |
| The Modest Passions | p. 78 |
| The Neutral Passion: Le Contentement | p. 87 |
| Summary | p. 89 |
| Setting the Texts | p. 96 |
| Painful Love | p. 98 |
| Bittersweet Love | p. 126 |
| Enticing Love | p. 129 |
| Joyous Love | p. 132 |
| Summary | p. 133 |
| Form and Style: The Organization and Function of Expressions, Syntax, and Rhetorical Figures | p. 138 |
| Form (Disposition) | p. 138 |
| The Organization of Expressions in Short Airs | p. 139 |
| The Organization of Expressions in Long Airs | p. 144 |
| Form in Single-Strophe Airs | p. 151 |
| The Rhetorical Sections of a Piece: Their Function and Expression | p. 153 |
| Style (Elocution): Poetic Structure, Punctuation, and Rhetorical Figures | p. 158 |
| L'Art du Chant: Performing French Airs | p. 185 |
| À Haute Voix: The Importance of Orality | p. 186 |
| The Art of Proper Singing: Tone and Style | p. 188 |
| Ornamentation | p. 192 |
| The Pronunciation of Seventeenth-Century French | p. 202 |
| Syllabic Quantity | p. 210 |
| Tempo | p. 216 |
| Le Mouvement | p. 217 |
| Repeats | p. 218 |
| Basso Continuo Accompaniment | p. 220 |
| Salon Culture and the Mid-Seventeenth-Century French Air | p. 230 |
| The French Air and Conversation | p. 230 |
| Musical Seductions | p. 237 |
| Galanterie and the Air: Undercurrents of Eroticism and Lessons of Morality | p. 243 |
| Women Singing Airs as Men | p. 260 |
| The Late-Seventeenth-Century Air and the Rhetoric of Distraction | p. 268 |
| The Air after 1670 | p. 268 |
| Songs and the Rhetoric of Distraction | p. 271 |
| Pleasure, Airs, and the New Rhetoric | p. 275 |
| The Legacy of Lambert, Bacilly, Le Camus, and La Barre | p. 280 |
| Appendix: Translations for Musical Examples and Emblems | p. 289 |
| Notes | p. 297 |
| Bibliography | p. 345 |
| Index | p. 369 |
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