Rameau and Musical Thought in the Enlightenment
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Part of Cambridge Studies in Music Theory and Analysis
- Author: Thomas Christensen, University of Iowa
- Date Published: December 2004
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 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.
Read more- Demonstrates strong links between music and science in the Enlightenment
- Describes Rameau's relationship with the Encyclopedists, Diderot, Rousseau and d'Alembert
- A book of wide interest to scholars of eighteenth-century science, the Enlightenment and the general history of ideas
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- Date Published: December 2004
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521617093
- length: 348 pages
- dimensions: 246 x 189 x 18 mm
- weight: 0.62kg
- contains: 34 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of 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.
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