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Author:   Thomas Christensen
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   New edition
Weight:   0.910kg
ISBN:  

9781472430557

ISBN 10:   1472430557
Pages:   404
Publication Date:   16 July 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Contents: Introduction. Part I Reflections on the History of Music Theory: Music theory and its histories; Music theory in Clio's mirror; Fragile texts, hidden theory. Part II Thorough-Bass and Music Theory: Fundamenta Partiturae: thorough bass and foundations of 18th-century composition pedagogy; The Spanish Baroque guitar and 17th-century triadic theory; The Regle de l'Octave in thorough-bass theory and practice; Throughbass as music theory. Part III The 17th Century: Harmonia Temporis: Calvisius and musical chronology; The sound world of Father Mersenne. Part IV The 18th century: Johann Nicolaus Bach as music theorist; Bach among the theorists; Sensus, Ratio, and Phthongos: Mattheson's theory of tone perception; Nichelmann contra C.Ph.E. Bach: harmonic theory and musical politics at the court of Frederick the Great; Diderot, Rameau, and resonating strings: new evidence of an early collaboration; Bemetzrieder's dream: Diderot and the pathology of tonal sensibility in the Lecons de clavecin. Index.

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Thomas Christensen is the Avalon Foundation Professor of Music and the Humanities, Associate Dean and Master of the Humanities Collegiate Division, University of Chicago, USA.

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