Title:
The Cambridge history of Western music theory / edited by Thomas Christensen.
Author:
Christensen, Thomas Street.
Publication Information:
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Call Number:
ML3800 .C165 2002
Abstract:
Publisher Description (unedited publisher data) The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory is the first comprehensive history of Western music theory to be published in the English language. A collaborative project by leading music theorists and historians, the volume traces the rich panorama of music-theoretical thought from the Ancient Greeks to the present day. Recognizing the variety and complexity of music theory as an historical subject, the volume has been organized within a flexible framework. Some chapters are defined chronologically within a restricted historical domain whilst others are defined conceptually and span historical periods. Together the thirty-one chapters present a synthetic overview of the fascinating and complex subject that is historical music theory. Richly enhanced with illustrations, graphics, examples and cross-citations, as well as being thoroughly indexed and supplemented by comprehensive bibliographies of the most important primary and secondary literature, this book will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars alike. Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Music theory History.
Electronic Access:
Full text available from Cambridge Histories Online Rutgers restricted.Table of contents http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/cam024/00050366.html
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ISBN:
9780521623711
9780521686983
9780511469152
Series:
The Cambridge history of music
Cambridge history of music.
Physical Description:
xxiii, 998 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents:
List of plates -- List of figures -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction / Disciplining music theory -- Mapping the terrain / Musica practica : music theory as pedagogy / Epistemologies of music theory / Speculative traditions -- Greek music theory / The transmission of ancient music theory into the Middle Ages / Medieval canonics / Tuning and temperament / The role of harmonics in the scientific revolution / From acoustics to Tonpsychologie / Music theory and mathematics
Regulative traditions -- Mapping tonal spaces -- Notes, scales and modes in the earlier Middle Ages / Renaissance modal theory : theoretical, compositional and editorial perspectives / Tonal organization in seventeenth-century music theory / Dualist tonal space and transformation in nineteenth-century musical thought / Compositional theory -- Organum, discantus, contrapunctus in the Middle Ages / Counterpoint pedagogy in the Renaissance / Performance theory / Steps to Parnassus : contrapuntal theory in 1725 precursors and successors / Twelve-tone theory / The evolution of rhythmic notation / Theories of musical rhythm in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Rhythm in twentieth-century theory / Tonality -- Tonality / Rameau and eighteenth-century harmonic theory / Nineteenth-century harmonic theory : the Austro-German legacy / Heinrich Schenker
Descriptive traditions -- Models of music analysis -- Music and rhetoric / Form / Thematic and motivic analysis / Music psychology -- Energetics / The psychology of music / Index of authors -- Index of subjects.
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