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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Note on Quotations, Translations, and Musical Examples | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Music and Texts: An Overview of the Sources | |
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| A General Description of the Air | |
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| The Publications | |
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| The Composers | |
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| Publications by Lambert, Bacilly, La Barre, and Le Camus: A Description | |
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| The Song Texts | |
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| Poetic Structure | |
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| Style or Elocution: Figurative Language and Poetic Syntax | |
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| Poetry and Rhetoric | |
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| Rhetoric and Meaning in the Seventeenth-Century French Air | |
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| Seventeenth-Century French Sources on Rhetoric and Music | |
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| Persuading the Passions | |
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| Musical Representations of the Primary Passions | |
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| The Primary Passions | |
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| The Agitated Passions | |
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| The Modest Passions | |
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| The Neutral Passion: Le Contentement | |
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| Summary | |
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| Setting the Texts | |
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| Painful Love | |
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| Bittersweet Love | |
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| Enticing Love | |
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| Joyous Love | |
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| Summary | |
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| Form and Style: The Organization and Function of Expressions, Syntax, and Rhetorical Figures | |
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| Form (Disposition) | |
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| The Organization of Expressions in Short Airs | |
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| The Organization of Expressions in Long Airs | |
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| Form in Single-Strophe Airs | |
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| The Rhetorical Sections of a Piece: Their Function and Expression | |
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| Style (Elocution): Poetic Structure, Punctuation, and Rhetorical Figures | |
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| L'Art du Chant: Performing French Airs | |
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| � Haute Voix: The Importance of Orality | |
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| The Art of Proper Singing: Tone and Style | |
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| Ornamentation | |
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| The Pronunciation of Seventeenth-Century French | |
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| Syllabic Quantity | |
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| Tempo | |
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| Le Mouvement | |
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| Repeats | |
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| Basso Continuo Accompaniment | |
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| Salon Culture and the Mid-Seventeenth-Century French Air | |
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| The French Air and Conversation | |
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| Musical Seductions | |
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| Galanterie and the Air: Undercurrents of Eroticism and Lessons of Morality | |
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| Women Singing Airs as Men | |
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| The Late-Seventeenth-Century Air and the Rhetoric of Distraction | |
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| The Air after 1670 | |
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| Songs and the Rhetoric of Distraction | |
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| Pleasure, Airs, and the New Rhetoric | |
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| The Legacy of Lambert, Bacilly, Le Camus, and La Barre | |
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| Appendix: Translations for Musical Examples and Emblems | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |