Music and Ideas in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

by Claude V. Palisca, Thomas J. Mathiesen

Overview

This essential summation of Palisca's life work was nearly finished by his death in 2001, and it was brought to completion by Thomas J. Mathiesen.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780252031564
Publisher:	University of Illinois Press
Publication date:	01/25/2006
Series:	Studies in the History of Music Theory
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	312
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Claude V. Palisca (1921-2001) was Henry L. and Lucy G. Moses Professor of Music at Yale University. Thomas J. Mathiesen is the director of the Center for the History of Music Theory and Literature at Indiana University.

Table of Contents

Foreword Thomas J. Mathiesen vii

I Musical Change and Intellectual History 1

II Universal Harmony 13

III Sense over Reason: The Anti-Theoretical Tradition 29

IV The Poetics of Musical Composition 49

V Humanist Reaction of Polyphony 99

VI Humanist Reaction to Polyphony 99

VII Theories of Monody and Dramatic Music 107

VIII Music and Scientific Discovery 131

IX Ancient and Modern: Styles and Genres 161

X Theories of the Affections and Imitation 179

XI Music and Rhetoric 203

Appendix of Principal Treatises Cited 233

Bibliography 243

Editorial Reviews

Awarded the ASCAP Deems Taylor Special Recognition Award (2007).

"Engagingly written for non-specialists (and even non-musicians), yet invaluable for the expert, this remarkable book is both the final summation of a lifetime's distinguished scholarship by the acknowledged master in the field and a stimulating, thorough and authoritative introduction to nearly every aspect of a lively and complex cultural and intellectual milieu of great historical significance: the musical world of the Renaissance and early Baroque, when the rediscovery of classical antiquity helped transmute the medieval into the modern. A profoundly generous legacy by a master scholar and teacher."—David E. Cohen, Columbia University


"It is hard to imagine anyone better qualified to write this book than Claude Palisca. Music and Ideas in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries brings together his vast learning on Renaissance musical thought in a concise and readable volume that will be of value to scholars and students alike. It is a fitting culmination to this distinguished scholar's career."—Thomas Christensen, professor of music, University of Chicago

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