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Nov 10, 2016 · It examines three radically different music-theoretical practices, which operate with different forms of written notation and different musical instruments, and have surprisingly different purposes in mind: the monochord-based theory of Franchinus Gaffurius (1518), the siren-based theory of Wilhelm Opelt (1834) and the piano-and-score-based ...
- Alexander Rehding
- 2016
Apr 27, 2017 · The field of music theory encompasses a broad range of thought and activities that have varied widely over time. Thus any history of music theory—and by consequence, any bibliography of historical music theory—needs to reflect this diversity.
The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory is the first comprehensive history of Western music theory to be published in the English language. A collaborative project by leading music theorists and historians, the volume traces the rich panorama of music-theoretical thought from the Ancient Greeks to the present day.
Most music-theoretical writing betrays few of Schenker’s epistemological qualms; Allen Forte’s The Structure of Atonal Music, to cite an example more or less at random, plunges straight into its topic in the same spirit of epistemological self-evidence that characterized the contemporary scientific writing on which Forte modeled both his literar...
- Nicholas Cook
- 2002
Over the course of the book, Ewell undertakes a textbook analysis to unpack the mythologies of whiteness and western-ness with respect to music theory, and gives, for the first time, his perspective on the controversy surrounding the publication of volume 12 of the Journal of Schenkerian Studies.
“The ‘gift of nature’: musical ‘instinct and musical cognition in Rameau,” Music Theory and Natural Order from the Renaissance to the Early Twentieth Century ,” ed. Suzannah Clark and Alexander Rehding.
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After the first generation of “classic” serialists, we start to see a wider range of serial practices emerge, including a move toward “integral” or “total” serialism, which applies serial technique to parameters other than pitch, particularly rhythm, dynamics, and articulation.
