The Work of Music Theory : Selected Essays (Hardcover, New ed)

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.