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Rameau and Musical Thought in the Enlightenment

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Paperback, 348 blz. | Engels
Cambridge University Press | e druk, 2004
ISBN13: 9780521617093
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This is the first intellectual biography of the French composer and theorist Jean-Philippe Rameau. Rameau synthesised the vocabulary and grammar of musical practice into a concise scientific system, earning himself the popular title of 'Newton of the Arts'. Ranging widely over the musical and intellectual thought of the eighteenth century, Thomas Christensen is able to orient Rameau's accomplishments in the light of speculative and practical considerations of music theory as well as many of the scientific ideas current in the French Enlightenment. He shows how Rameau incorporates ideas ranging from neoplatonic thought and Cartesian mechanistic metaphysics to Locke's empirical psychology and Newtonian experimental science. Additional primary documents help clarify Rameau's fascinating and stormy relationship with the Encyclopedists, Diderot, Rousseau and d'Alembert.

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ISBN13:9780521617093
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:Paperback
Aantal pagina's:348

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List of illustrations; Foreword by Ian Bent; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Rameau and the Enlightenment; 2. Rameau as music theorist; 3. Precursors of harmonic theory; 4. The generative fundamental; 5. The fundamental bass; 6. The corps sonore; 7. Mode and modulation; 8. Rameau and the philosophes; 9. D'Alembert; 10. The final years; Appendices; Select bibliography; Index of subjects; Index of proper names.

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