Musical representations, subjects, and objects : the construction of musical thought in Zarlino, Descartes, Rameau, and Weber / Jairo Moreno.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moreno, Jairo, 1963-

Series:

Musical meaning and interpretation

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.

Music.

Music--Semiotics.

Music theory--History.

Music theory.

History.

Physical Description:

viii, 236 pages : music ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2004]

Summary:

Jairo Moreno adapts the methodologies and nomenclature of Foucault's "archaeology of knowledge" and applies it through individual case studies to the theoretical writings of Zarlino, Descartes, Rameau, and Weber. His conclusion summarizes the conditions--musical, philosophical, and historical--that "make a certain form of thought about music necessary and possible at the time it emerges."

Contents:

Zarlino: instituting knowledge in the time of correspondences

The representation of order: perception and the early modern subject in Descartes's Compendium musicae

The complicity of the imagination: representation, subject, and system in Rameau

Gottfried Weber and Mozart's K. 465: the contents and discontents of the listening subject.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [221]-231) and index.

ISBN:

0253344573

OCLC:

54906944