| Description |
1 online resource (xxiii, 998 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
The Cambridge history of music |
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Cambridge history of music.
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| Contents |
List of plates -- List of figures -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction / Thomas Christensen -- pt. 1. Disciplining music theory -- 1. Mapping the terrain / Leslie Blasius -- 2. Musica practica : music theory as pedagogy / Robert W. Wason -- 3. Epistemologies of music theory / Nicholas Cook -- pt. 2. Speculative traditions -- 4. Greek music theory / Thomas J. Mathiesen -- 5. The transmission of ancient music theory into the Middle Ages / Calvin M. Bower -- 6. Medieval canonics / Jan Herlinger -- 7. Tuning and temperament / Rudolf Rasch -- 8. The role of harmonics in the scientific revolution / Penelope Gouk -- 9. From acoustics to Tonpsychologie / Burdette Green and David Butler -- 10. Music theory and mathematics / Catherine Nolan |
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pt. 3. Regulative traditions -- A. Mapping tonal spaces -- 11. Notes, scales and modes in the earlier Middle Ages / David E. Cohen -- 12. Renaissance modal theory : theoretical, compositional and editorial perspectives / Cristle Collins Judd -- 13. Tonal organization in seventeenth-century music theory / Gregory Barnett -- 14. Dualist tonal space and transformation in nineteenth-century musical thought / Henry Klumpenhouwer -- B. Compositional theory -- 15. Organum, discantus, contrapunctus in the Middle Ages / Sarah Fuller -- 16. Counterpoint pedagogy in the Renaissance / Peter Schubert -- 17. Performance theory / Albert Cohen -- 18. Steps to Parnassus : contrapuntal theory in 1725 precursors and successors / Ian Bent -- 19. Twelve-tone theory / John Covach -- 20. The evolution of rhythmic notation / Anna Maria Busse Berger -- 21. Theories of musical rhythm in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / William E. Caplin -- 22. Rhythm in twentieth-century theory / Justin London -- D. Tonality -- 23. Tonality / Brian Hyer -- 24. Rameau and eighteenth-century harmonic theory / Joel Lester -- 25. Nineteenth-century harmonic theory : the Austro-German legacy / David W. Bernstein -- 26. Heinrich Schenker / William Drabkin |
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pt. 4. Descriptive traditions -- A. Models of music analysis -- 27. Music and rhetoric / Patrick McCreless -- 28. Form / Scott Burnham -- 29. Thematic and motivic analysis / Jonathan Dunsby -- B. Music psychology -- 30. Energetics / Lee Rothfarb -- 31. The psychology of music / Robert Gjerdingen -- Index of authors -- Index of subjects |
| Summary |
Presents a comprehensive history of Western music theory that traces music-theoretical thought from the ancient Greeks to 2000 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Subject |
Music theory -- History.
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Music theory.
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Muziektheorie.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Christensen, Thomas Street
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| LC no. |
00050366 |
| ISBN |
9780511469152 |
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0511469152 |
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9781139053471 |
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1139053477 |
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0521623715 |
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9780521623711 |
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9781139053471 |
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