Rameau and Musical Thought in the Enlightenment
Rameau and Musical Thought in the Enlightenment
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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.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780521617093 |
| ISBN 10 | 052161709X |
| Title | Rameau and Musical Thought in the Enlightenment |
| Author | Thomas Christensen |
| Series | Cambridge Studies In Music Theory And Analysis |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2004-12-16 |
| Number of pages | 348 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |