The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory
- Editor: Christensen, Thomas
This first single-volume history of music theory in English is a significant addition to literature about music. [...] It should be part of all academic music collections —
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$88.75Contents
- Introduction Thomas Christensen;
- Part I . Disciplining Music Theory:
- 1. Mapping the terrain Leslie Blasius;
- 2. Musica practica: music theory as pedagogy Robert W. Wason;
- 3. Epistemologies of music theory Nicholas Cook;
- Part II . Speculative Traditions:
- 4. Greek music theory Thomas J. Mathiesen;
- 5. The transmission of ancient music theory into the Middle Ages Calvin Bower;
- 6. Medieval canonics Jan Herlinger;
- 7. Tuning and temperament Rudolf Rasch;
- 8. The role of harmonics in the scientific revolution Penelope Gouk;
- 9. From acoustics to tonpsychologie Burdette Green and David Butler;
- 10. Music theory and mathematics Catherine Nolan;
- Part III . Regulative Traditions:
- 11. Notes, scales, and modes in Carolingian thought David Cohen;
- 12. Renaissance modal theory: theoretical, compositional and editorial perspectives Cristle Collins Judd;
- 13. Tonal organization in seventeenth-century music theory Gregory Barnett;
- 14. Dualist tonal space and transformation in the nineteenth century Henry Klumpenhouwer;
- 15. Organum, diaphonia, discantus, contrapunctus in the Middle Ages Sarah Fuller;
- 16. Counterpoint pedagogy in the Renaissance Peter Schubert;
- 17. Performance theory Albert Cohen;
- 18. Steps to Parnassus: contrapuntal theory in 1725: precursors and successors Ian Bent;
- 19. Twelve-tone theory John Covach;
- 20. The evolution of rhythmic notation Anna Maria Busse Berger;
- 21. Theories of musical rhythm in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries William Caplin;
- 22. Rhythm in twentieth-century theory Justin London;
- 23. Tonality Brian Hyer;
- 24. Rameau and eighteenth-century harmonic theory Joel Lester;
- 25. Nineteenth-century harmonic theory: the Austro-German legacy David W. Bernstein;
- 26. Heinrich Schenker William Drabkin;
- Part IV . Descriptive Traditions:
- 27. Music and rhetoric Patrick McCreless;
- 28. Form Scott Burnham;
- 29. Thematic and motivic analysis Jonathan Dunsby;
- 30. Energetics Lee Rothfarb;
- 31. The psychology of music Robert Gjerdingen.