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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"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, proponents and antagonists alike. The broad scope of the book's approach, balanced by an appropriate level of technical and theoretical detail, will be welcomed by theorists and scholars of music, 18th-century science, the Enlightenment, and the history of ideas." The Diapason
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This is the first intellectual biography of the French composer and theorist Jean-Philippe Rameau, who synthesised the vocabulary and grammar of musical practice into a concise scientific system, earning himself the popular title of 'Newton of the Arts'. The author examines Rameau's accomplishments in the context of the musical and intellectual thought of the eighteenth century.
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corps sonore, single monochord string, génération harmonique, chordal generation, octave identity, fundamental bass, octave replication, triple progression, enharmonic genres, principe sonore, musica pratica, monochord division, triadic parallelism, basse fondamentale, musique pratique, perfect twelfth, aliquot divisions, cadence rompue, des consonances, undivided string, string divisions, cadence parfaite, generative unity, pratique suivant les principes, musica theorica Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Jean-Philippe Rameau, French Enlightenment, Preliminary Discourse, Académie Mémoire, Harmonie Universelle, Nouveau Traité, Carl Dahlhaus, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Cynthia Verba, New Haven, Opéra Mémoire, Rameau's Traité, Albert Cohen, Charles Masson, Daniel Bernoulli, Denis Delair, Dortous de Mairan, Mercure de France, Cuthbert Girdlestone, Gianotti's Guide, Herbert Schneider, Marie-Elisabeth Duchez, Rameau Colloque International, Bibliothèque Nationale New!
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corps sonore, single monochord string, génération harmonique, chordal generation, octave identity, fundamental bass, octave replication, triple progression, enharmonic genres, principe sonore, musica pratica, monochord division, triadic parallelism, basse fondamentale, musique pratique, perfect twelfth, aliquot divisions, cadence rompue, des consonances, undivided string, string divisions, cadence parfaite, generative unity, pratique suivant les principes, musica theorica Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Jean-Philippe Rameau, French Enlightenment, Preliminary Discourse, Académie Mémoire, Harmonie Universelle, Nouveau Traité, Carl Dahlhaus, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Cynthia Verba, New Haven, Opéra Mémoire, Rameau's Traité, Albert Cohen, Charles Masson, Daniel Bernoulli, Denis Delair, Dortous de Mairan, Mercure de France, Cuthbert Girdlestone, Gianotti's Guide, Herbert Schneider, Marie-Elisabeth Duchez, Rameau Colloque International, Bibliothèque Nationale New!
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