Rameau and Musical Thought in the Enlightenment by Thomas Christensen

Rameau and Musical Thought in the Enlightenment by Thomas Christensen

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.

Thomas Christensen is a University of Chicago Professor of Music and Humanities.

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ISBN 13	9780521617093
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Titel	Rameau and Musical Thought in the Enlightenment
Autor	Thomas Christensen
Serie	Cambridge Studies In Music Theory And Analysis
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Cambridge University Press
Erscheinungsjahr	2004-12-16
Seitenanzahl	348
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