The Work of Music Theory: Selected Essays

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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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