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The Cambridge history of Western music theory / edited by Thomas Christensen.

Other author/creatorChristensen, Thomas Street.
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoCambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Descriptionxxiii, 998 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subject(s)
Portion of title Western music modern
Series Cambridge history of music
Cambridge history of music. ^A684135
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 -- The transmission of ancient music theory into the Middle Ages / Calvin M. Bower -- Medieval cannonics / Jan Herlinger -- Tuning and temperament / Rudolf Rasch -- The role of harmonics in the scientific revolution / Penelope Gouk -- From acoutics to Tonpsychologie / Burdette Green and 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 -- The 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 -- The psychology of music / Robert Gjerdingen.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
LCCN 00050366
ISBN0521623715

Available Items

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Music Course Reference ML3800 .C165 2002 ✔ Available