What kind of theory is music theory?
Subtitle: epistemological exercises in music theory and analysis
By: edited by Per F. Broman and  Nora A. Engebretsen
Series: Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis -- Stockholm studies in musicology -- 1; Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis -- 1.
Publisher: Stockholm University
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Stockholm
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
ISBN-13: 9789185445806
Subjects: Music; Philosophy and aesthetics; Musical analysis; Music theory; Music and science
Other titles: Epistemological exercises in music theory and analysis
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Music theory and science. Music theory : art, science, or what? / Per F. Broman ; Playing the "science card" : science as metaphor in the practice of music theory / Elizabeth Sayrs and Gregory Proctor ; "Initial conditions" : problems of scope and cause in music analytical claims / Stephen Peles ; Simplicity, truth, and beauty in music theory / Nora Engebretsen ; The concept of unity in music / James W. Manns; title: History. The techne of music theory and epistemic domain of the (neo-) Aristotelian arts of logos / Elisabeth Kotzakidou Pace ; Countless Western art music recordings : towards a theory of what to do with them / Jonathan Dunsby ; When the theorists are silent : Mattheson, Bach, and the development of historically informed analytical techniques / Ruth Tallow ;  Mathematics and ideology in Modernist music theory / Jacob Derkert; title: Language and metaphor. The contribution of mind / Sten Dahlstedt ; A woman's (theoretical) work / Marion A. Guck ; Musical intuition and the status of tonal theory as cognitive science / Mark DeBellis.