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Author Christensen, Thomas

Title The Work of Music Theory : Selected Essays
Published Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (404 pages)
Series Ashgate Contemporary Thinkers on Critical Musicology
Ashgate contemporary thinkers on critical musicology.
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART ONE: REFLECTIONS ON THE HISTORY OF MUSIC THEORY -- 1. Music Theory and Its Histories (1993) -- The Presentist's Myopia -- The Historicist's Naivety -- Toward Hermeneutic Reconciliation -- Notes -- 2. Music Theory in Clio's Mirror (2002) -- 3. Fragile Texts, Hidden Theory (2011) -- 1. Case Study #1: Boethius -- 2. Hidden Theory -- 3. Case Study #2: Hollandrinus -- 4. Case Study #3: Partimenti -- 5. A Coda on Print Culture
Partial BibliographyPART TWO: THOROUGH-BASS AND MUSIC THEORY -- 4. Fundamenta Partiturae: Thorough Bass and Foundations of Eighteenth-Century Composition Pedagogy (2008) -- 5. The Spanish Baroque Guitar and Seventeenth-Century Triadic Theory (1992) -- Rasgueado Guitar Performance and Triadic Textures -- The Guitar and Thorough-Bass Practice -- Campion and the RÃg̈ie de l'octave -- NOTES -- 6. The RÃg̈ie de l'Octave in Thorough-Bass Theory and Practice (1992) -- I -- II -- 7. Thoroughbass as Music Theory (2010) -- 1. CHORDAL IDENTITY
2. CADENTIAL MOTION, THE FUNDAMENTAL BASS, AND THE RULE OF THE OCT AVE3. HARMONIC FUNCTIONALITY -- 4. DIMINUTION AND PROLONGATION -- 5. CONCLUSION -- PART THREE: THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY -- 8. Harmonia Temporis: Calvisius and Musical Chronology (2008) -- I -- II -- Ill -- IV -- V -- 9. The Sound World of Father Mersenne (2012) -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- NOTES -- PART FOUR: THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY -- 10. Johann Nicolaus Bach as Music Theorist (1996) -- 11. Bach among the Theorists (1998)
12. Sensus, Ratio, and Phthongos: Mattheson's Theory of Tone Perception (1994)NOTES -- 13. Nichelmann contra C. Ph. E. Bach: Harmonic Theory and Musical Politics at the Court of Frederick the Great (1990) -- 14. Diderot, Rameau, and Resonating Strings: New Evidence of an Early Collaboration (1994) -- i. Rameau and the science of music theory -- ii. Rameau and the Academie -- iii. The Opéra 'Memoire' -- iv. Diderot and music -- v. Rameau's sensationalist conversion -- vi. Diderot's resonating strings -- vii. The aesthetics of rapport
Notes ""15. Bemetzrieder's Dream: Diderot and the Pathology of Tonal Sensibility in the LeÒ«ons de clavecin (2001)""""Notes""
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