History Of Music Theory Books I And Ii
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The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory
Author: Thomas Christensen
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date: 2006-04-20
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. Recognizing the variety and complexity of music theory as an historical subject, the volume has been organized within a flexible framework. Some chapters are defined chronologically within a restricted historical domain, whilst others are defined conceptually and span longer historical periods. Together the thirty-one chapters present a synthetic overview of the fascinating and complex subject that is historical music theory. Richly enhanced with illustrations, graphics, examples and cross-citations as well as being thoroughly indexed and supplemented by comprehensive bibliographies of the most important primary and secondary literature, this book will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars alike.
Contemplating Music
Author: Joseph Kerman
language: en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date: 2009-06-01
Contemplating Music is a book for all serious music lovers. Here is the first full-scale of ideas and ideologies in music over the past forty years; a period during which virtually every aspect of music was transformed. With this book, Joesph Kerman establishes the place of music study firmly in the mainstream of modern intellectual history. He treats not only the study of the history of Western art music--with which musicology is tradtionally equated--but also sometimes vexed relations between music history and other fields: music theory and analysis, ethnomusicology, and music criticism. Kerman sees and applauds a change in the study of music towarda critical orientation, As examples, he presents a fascinating vignettes of Bach research in the 1950's and Beethoven studies in the 1960's. He sketched the work of prominent scholars and theorists: Thurston Dart, Charles Rosen, Leonard B. Meyer, Heinrich Schenker, Miltion Babbit, and many others. And he comments on such various subjects as the amazing absorption of Stephen Foster's songs into the cannons of black music, the new intensity of Verdi research, controversies about performance on historical instruments, and the merits and demerits of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Comtemplating Music is fulled with wisdom and trenchant commmentary. It will spark controversy among musicologists of all stripes and will give many musicians and amateurs an entirely new perspective on the world of music.
History of Music Theory, Books I and II
One of the great pioneers of musicology, Hugo Riemann (1849-1919) left an impressive body of work in many areas of musical scholarship--historical studies, lexicons, editions of musical works, and writings on music theory and composition. His monumental History of Music Theory (Geschichte der Musiktheorie) continues to lead an active life in the bibliographies and footnotes of the contemporary literature of music history, and is a basic reference for students of the Medieval and Renaissance periods. It amply demonstrated in its first two books (which are a history of polyphonic music to the sixteenth century) Riemann's mastery of the literature of the music theory of these periods. In making a complete translation of Books I and II, this book has undertaken a comprehensive revision, utilizing new and definitive editions of medieval treatises which were unavailable to Riemann. A particular value of this work lies in its extensive quotations from Medieval and Renaissance sources, left untranslated in the original, and here rendered into English. The preface examines Riemann's conception of the development of polyphonic theory, putting his position in clear historical perspective, commentaries for each chapter detail the subsequent advances in scholarly understanding of the several problems, and bring the material into correspondence with the findings of contemporary scholarship. In addition, a selective annotated bibliography lists items that have made contributions of importance to this subject since the publication of Riemann's work. The literature devoted to investigations of the history of Medieval and Renaissance music and music theory reveals a tremendous growth of knowledge since Riemann's time, but it also testifies to the continuing validity of his History of Music Theory which is, even today, an indispensable work. In this revised edition, translated into English and including the translator's commentary and careful bibliography, Riemann's History of Music Theory, a work unique in the literature of musicology, can continue its useful service in musical scholarship. -- From dust jacket.