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 ...
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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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New. Trade paperback (US). Contains: Line drawings, Halftones. Cambridge Studies in Music Theory and Analysis . 34 b/w illus. Intended for college/higher education audience.
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VG-/VG-(Ex-library with stamps and labels on spine, inside front and rear covers, ffep and block. ) Black cloth boards with gilt spine lettering; navy dj, illustrated and yellow lettering, mylar cover; xviii, 327 pp; bw illustrations and music. "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."-DJ. Contents include: Rameau and the Enlightenment--Rameau as music theorist--Precursors of harmonic theory--The generative fundamental--The fundamental bass--The corps sonore--Mode and modulation--Rameau and the philosophes--D'Alembert--The final years--Appendix: A note on harmonic and arithmetic proportions--Appendix: "L'art de la basse fondamentale" and Gianotti's Le guide du compositeur.
Add this copy of Rameau and Musical Thought in the Enlightenment to cart. $94.37, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1994 by Cambridge University Press.
Add this copy of Rameau and Musical Thought in the Enlightenment to cart. $95.51, new condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2004 by Cambridge University Press.
