Music theorists of almost all ages employ a concept of "Nature" to justify observations or statements about music. The understanding of what "Nature" is, however, is subject to cultural and historical differences. In tracing these explanatory strategies and their changes in music theories between c. 1600 and 1900, these essays explore (for the first time in a book-length study) how the multifarious conceptions of nature, located variously between scientific reason and divine power, are brought to bear on music theory and how they affect our understanding of music.
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"...the variety and high-quality of the nine articles in this volume are impressive indeed...The excellent essays which form this volume, although focused specifically on music and music theory, are case studies of the universal tendency to substantiate ideology by means of appeals to "nature" and "natural order" and, as such, are certainly of general interest." Renaissance Quarterly
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Music theorists of almost all ages employ a concept of 'Nature' to justify observations or statements about music. The understanding of what 'Nature' is, however, is subject to cultural and historical differences. In tracing these explanatory strategies and their changes in music theories between c. 1600 and 1900, these essays explore (for the first time in a book-length study) how the multifarious conceptions of nature, located variously between scientific reason and divine power, are brought to bear on music theory and how they affect our understanding of music.
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phonic scale, corps sonore, foundational presumptions, major interlude, fundamental bass, sonata form, crotchet rest, primary triads, sonata principle, music analysis, music theory, music theorists, equal temperament, musical practice, natura naturans, double return, natura naturata, entire symphony, absolute music, overtone series, tonal system, empirical self Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Cambridge University Press, Francis Bacon, Oxford University Press, Robert Fludd, Tempest Sonata, Vincenzo Galilei, Henry Purcell, Max Weber, Princeton University Press, University of Chicago Press, Jean-Philippe Rameau, The Death of Nature, Charles Butler, Charles Rosen, Clarendon Press, John Playford, August Halm, Farewell Symphony, Joseph Haydn, Ludwig van Beethoven, Moritz Hauptmann, Advancement of Musick, Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, Cesare Ripa New!
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phonic scale, corps sonore, foundational presumptions, major interlude, fundamental bass, sonata form, crotchet rest, primary triads, sonata principle, music analysis, music theory, music theorists, equal temperament, musical practice, natura naturans, double return, natura naturata, entire symphony, absolute music, overtone series, tonal system, empirical self Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Cambridge University Press, Francis Bacon, Oxford University Press, Robert Fludd, Tempest Sonata, Vincenzo Galilei, Henry Purcell, Max Weber, Princeton University Press, University of Chicago Press, Jean-Philippe Rameau, The Death of Nature, Charles Butler, Charles Rosen, Clarendon Press, John Playford, August Halm, Farewell Symphony, Joseph Haydn, Ludwig van Beethoven, Moritz Hauptmann, Advancement of Musick, Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, Cesare Ripa New!
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- Science and the Secrets of Nature by William Eamon on 7 pages
- Sonata Forms (Revised Edition) by Charles Rosen on 7 pages
- Reappraisals of the Scientific Revolution by David C. Lindberg on 5 pages
- The Farewell Symphony by Anna Harwell Celenza on 5 pages
- Philosophy of Right (Dover Philosophical Classics) by Georg W. F. Hegel on 4 pages
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- Hugo Riemann and the Birth of Modern Musical Thought (New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism) by Alexander Rehding on 6 pages
- Virtuosity and the Musical Work: The Transcendental Studies of Liszt by Jim Samson on page 113, and Back Matter
- Musical Representations, Subjects, and Objects: The Construction of Musical Thought in Zarlino, Descartes, Rameau, and Weber (Musical Meaning and Interpretation) by Jairo Moreno in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Musical Listening in the German Enlightenment: Attention, Wonder and Astonishment by Matthew Riley on page 85, and Back Matter
- The Artist-Operas of Pfitzner, Krenek, and Hindemith: Politics and the Ideology of the Artist by Claire Taylor-Jay on page 158, and Back Matter
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