Published in Music in Middle Ages and Early Modernity

Keywords: Keywords: François Couperin, French music of the 18th century, Gigue, Harpsichord.

In the last decades the historical-musical research has become necessary object for the performance of works of distant periods. The joining of common elements between rhetorical and musical discourse adds to the material interpretative bases that underlie it. This fact shows some correlations between the Gigas by François Couperin and the French spoken language in order to base their performance.