Joseph Riepel's Theory of metric and tonal order
Subtitle: phrase and form : a translation of his Anfangsgründe zur musicalischen Setzkunst, chapters 1 and 2 (1752/54, 1755)
By: with commentary by John Walter Hill
Contributors: Hill, John Walter, 1942- writer of added commentary, translator
Series: Harmonologia : studies in music theory -- no. 20
Publisher: Pendragon Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Hillsdale, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 471
ISBN-13: 9781576472453
Subjects: Composition (Music); Early works to 1800; Music Theory
Work titles: Anfangsgründe zur musicalischen Setzkunst
Notes: Originally published: Frankfurt : [Gredruckt bey J.J. Lotter, Augspurg], 1752 (chapter 1) and Frankfurt : [Gedruckt bey C.U. Wagner, Ulm], 1755 (chapter 2).

Includes bibliographical references (pages 459-464) and index.
Table of contents: title: Joseph Riepel, Foundations of musical composition, chapters 1 and 2; title: Chapter 1, Concerning rhythmopoeïa; or, Concerning metric order; title: Chapter 2, Principles of tonal order generally; title: Rhythmopoeïa and melopoeïa; title: Mid-eighteenth century Berlin orchestral repertoire collected in Dresden; title: The origin of and context for Joseph Riepel's theories; title: Reception : Leopold and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; title: Reception : Heinrich Christoph Koch, other contemporaneous writers, and Riepel's students.