Hearing with the mind : proto-cognitive music theory in the Scottish enlightenment /

"This book includes more developed versions of work presented in article form in the Journal of Music Theory, Music Theory Spectrum, and SMT-V; I am greatly indebted to the editors and staff of these journals, in particular to Poundie Burstein, Laura Emmery, Noah Kahrs, Julie Pedneault-Deslauri...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Raz, Carmel, 1982- (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025]
Series:	Oxford studies in music theory.
Subjects:	Holden, John, > active 18th century. Young, Walter, > 1745-1814. Gunn, Anne, > active 1800-1803. Music theorists > Scotland > Biography. Music theory > Scotland > History > 18th century. Enlightenment > Scotland. Musical perception. Scotland > Intellectual life > 18th century. Siècle des Lumières > Écosse. Perception de la musique. Écosse > Vie intellectuelle > 18e siècle. Théoriciens de la musique > Écosse > Biographies. Théorie musicale > Écosse > Histoire > 18e siècle. Great Britain. Europe. HISTORY. Social History. History & Criticism. MUSIC. Cognitive Science. SCIENCE. Music. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Potter, musician, merchant, scribe : the many lives of John Holden (1729-72)
An eighteenth-century theory of musical cognition? John Holden's Essay towards a Rational System of Music (1770)
"Our nurses tunes" : John Holden and Scottish psalmody
To "fill up, completely, the whole capacity of the mind" : listening with attention in late eighteenth-century Scotland
Rhythm as a universal "science of man" : Walter Young's "Essay on Rythmical Measures" (1790)
What's in a game? Rediscovering the music theory of Anne Young.