Rameau and Musical Thought in the Enlightenment - Cambridge Studies in Music Theory and Analysis, 4 (Book, New ed)

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.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 2004
First published:	1993
Authors:	Thomas Christensen
Foreword by:	Ian Bent
Dimensions:	245 x 190 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Book
Pages:	348
Edition:	New ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-61709-3
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Theory of music & musicology > General Books > Music > Theory of music & musicology > General
LSN:	0-521-61709-X
Barcode:	9780521617093

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