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Rameau and Musical Thought in the Enlightenment

Rameau and Musical Thought in the Enlightenment

Cambridge Studies in Music Theory and Analysis, 4

by Thomas Christensen
Paperback
Publication Date: 16/12/2004
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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.
ISBN:
9780521617093
9780521617093
Category:
Theory of music & musicology
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
16-12-2004
Language:
English
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
348
Dimensions (mm):
246x189x18mm
Weight:
0.62kg
Thomas Christensen

Thomas J. Christensen is the James T. Shotwell Professor of International Relations and the director of the China and the World Program at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. He served as deputy assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific Affairs from 2006 to 2008, and his books include The China Challenge: Shaping the Choices of a Rising Power (2015).

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