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Music and ideas in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Claude V. Palisca.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML174 .P35 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Palisca, Claude V.
- Series:
- Studies in the history of music theory and literature
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Music theory--History--16th century.
- Music theory.
- History.
- Music theory--History--17th century.
- Physical Description:
- x, 302 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Other Title:
- Music and ideas
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2006]
- Contents:
- Musical change and intellectual history
- Universal harmony
- Sense over reason : the anti-theoretical tradition
- The poetics of musical composition
- Humanist revival of the modes and genera
- Humanist reaction to polyphony
- Theories of monody and dramatic music
- Music and scientific discovery
- Ancient and modern : styles and genres
- Theories of the affections and imitation
- Music and rhetoric.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-270) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0252031563
- OCLC:
- 62878390
- Publisher Number:
- 9780252031564
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