Music Theory and Natural Order from the Renaissance to the Early Twentieth Century

Music theorists of almost all ages employ a concept of Nature to justify observations or statements about music. The understanding of what Nature is, however, is subject to cultural and historical differences. In tracing these explanatory strategies and their changes in music theories between c. 1600 and 1900, these essays explore (for the first time in a book-length study) how the multifarious conceptions of nature, located variously between scientific reason and divine power, are brought to bear on music theory and how they affect our understanding of music.

Author: Suzannah Clark
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 01/19/2006
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.54d
ISBN: 9780521023924

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