Music and ideas in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Palisca, Claude V.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Illinois Press, [2006]
Series:Studies in the history of music theory and literature.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Musical change and intellectual history
  • Universal harmony
  • Sense over reason : the anti-theoretical tradition
  • The poetics of musical composition
  • Humanist revival of the modes and genera
  • Humanist reaction to polyphony
  • Theories of monody and dramatic music
  • Music and scientific discovery
  • Ancient and modern : styles and genres
  • Theories of the affections and imitation
  • Music and rhetoric.