Music and ideas in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
By: Claude V. Palisca
Series: Studies in the history of music theory and literature
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
Subjects: Music theory -- History -- 16th century; Music theory -- History -- 17th century
Other titles: Music and ideas
Description: "Music and Ideas in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries shows Claude V. Palisca - one of the preeminent musicologists of our time - at the height of his powers, discussing the relationships between musical style and intellectual history, the influence of humanism on the revival of music theory, the competing notions of style, and the intermingled effects of rhetoric, poetics, religion, and science. Palisca's discussions demonstrate how this period's musical thought was penetrated by many aspects of culture, including religious reform, secularization, the emergence of vernacular literature, documentary historiography, the rise and decline of neo-Platonism, Aristotelian poetics, the scientific movement, the revival of rhetoric, and openness of emotional experience. This summation of Palisca's life work was nearly finished in 2001, when Palisca died. It was brought to completion by Thomas J. Mathiesen."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-270) and index
Table of contents: title: Musical change and intellectual history; title: Universal harmony; title: Sense over reason : the anti-theoretical tradition; title: The poetics of musical composition; title: Humanist revival of the modes and genera; title: Humanist reaction to polyphony; title: Theories of monody and dramatic music; title: Music and scientific discovery; title: Ancient and modern : styles and genres; title: Theories of the affections and imitation; title: Music and rhetoric