Description |
xxiii, 998 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
Series |
Cambridge history of music
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
Contents |
Mapping the terrain / Leslie Blasius -- Musica practica : music theory as pedagogy / Robert W. Wason -- Epistemologies of music theory / Nicholas Cook -- Greek music theory / Thomas J. Mathiesen -- Transmission of ancient music theory into the Middle Ages / Calvin M. Bower -- Medieval canonics / Jan Herlinger -- Tuning and temperament / Rudolf Rasch -- Role of harmonics in the scientific revolution / Penelope Gouk -- From acoustics to Tonpsychologie / Burdette Green, David Butler -- Music theory and mathematics / Catherine Nolan -- Notes, scales and modes in the earlier Middle Ages / David E. Cohen -- Renaissance modal theory : theoretical, compositional and editorial perspectives / Cristle Collins Judd -- Tonal organization in seventeenth-century music theory / Gregory Barnett -- Dualist tonal space and transformation in nineteenth-century musical thought / Henry Klumpenhouwer -- Organum, discantus, contrapunctus in the Middle Ages / Sarah Fuller -- Counterpoint pedagogy in the Renaissance / Peter Schubert -- Performance theory / Albert Cohen -- Steps to Parnassus : contrapuntal theory in 1725 precursors and successors / Ian Bent -- Twelve-tone theory / John Covach -- Evolution of rhythmic notation / Anna Maria Busse Berger -- Theories of musical rhythm in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / William E. Caplin -- Rhythm in twentieth-century theory / Justin London -- Tonality / Brian Hyer -- Rameau and eighteenth-century harmonic theory / Joel Lester -- Nineteenth-century harmonic theory : the Austro-German legacy / David W. Bernstein -- Heinrich Schenker / William Drabkin -- Music and rhetoric / Patrick McCreless -- Form / Scott Burnham -- Thematic and motivic analysis / Jonathan Dunsby -- Energetics / Lee Rothfarb -- Psychology of music / Robert Gjerdingen. |
Subject |
Music theory -- History
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Added Author |
Christensen, Thomas Street.
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Added Title |
Western music theory |
ISBN |
0521623715 |
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