Rameau and Musical Thought in the Enlightenment
- Author: Christensen, Thomas
Ian Bent's foreward describes this intellectual biography as the first to survey the totality of Rameau's work, incorporating recently discovered materials, along with glimpses of his contemporaries,... — More…
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Contents
- 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.