André de Oliveira Redwood is Assistant Professor in the Department of Music & Theatre at the University at Albany, SUNY.

"Even though Mersenne studies have captured the attention of a new generation of scholars who are and will be publishing important research on the subject, Universal Harmony in the Age of Eloquence stands alone in its holistic approach with rhetoric as its focal point. The book is especially important because it supplies the key that unlocks our understanding of Mersenne's Harmonie universelle as a whole and its relevance to other studies on seventeenth-century French music, literature, culture, and society" - Catherine Gordon, author of Music and the Language of Love

• Note on Abbreviations, Citations, and TranslationsNote on Citing Harmonie universelleList of FiguresIntroductionPart I1. Reframing Rhetoric and Music Theory2. Preachers and Polymaths3. Mersenne, RhetoricianPart II4. Making Eloquent Music5. Sound, Voice, Delivery6. Music for the OratorEpilogue: Harmony as AptumBibliographyIndex

André de Oliveira Redwood is Assistant Professor in the Department of Music & Theatre at the University at Albany, SUNY.

"Even though Mersenne studies have captured the attention of a new generation of scholars who are and will be publishing important research on the subject, Universal Harmony in the Age of Eloquence stands alone in its holistic approach with rhetoric as its focal point. The book is especially important because it supplies the key that unlocks our understanding of Mersenne's Harmonie universelle as a whole and its relevance to other studies on seventeenth-century French music, literature, culture, and society" - Catherine Gordon, author of Music and the Language of Love

• Note on Abbreviations, Citations, and TranslationsNote on Citing Harmonie universelleList of FiguresIntroductionPart I1. Reframing Rhetoric and Music Theory2. Preachers and Polymaths3. Mersenne, RhetoricianPart II4. Making Eloquent Music5. Sound, Voice, Delivery6. Music for the OratorEpilogue: Harmony as AptumBibliographyIndex

André de Oliveira Redwood is Assistant Professor in the Department of Music & Theatre at the University at Albany, SUNY.

"Even though Mersenne studies have captured the attention of a new generation of scholars who are and will be publishing important research on the subject, Universal Harmony in the Age of Eloquence stands alone in its holistic approach with rhetoric as its focal point. The book is especially important because it supplies the key that unlocks our understanding of Mersenne's Harmonie universelle as a whole and its relevance to other studies on seventeenth-century French music, literature, culture, and society" - Catherine Gordon, author of Music and the Language of Love

• Note on Abbreviations, Citations, and TranslationsNote on Citing Harmonie universelleList of FiguresIntroductionPart I1. Reframing Rhetoric and Music Theory2. Preachers and Polymaths3. Mersenne, RhetoricianPart II4. Making Eloquent Music5. Sound, Voice, Delivery6. Music for the OratorEpilogue: Harmony as AptumBibliographyIndex