Rameau and Musical Thought in the Enlightenment [Paperback]

Thomas Christensen (Author), Ian Bent (Foreword)

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Paperback: 348 pages
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (Dec 16 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 052161709X
ISBN-13: 978-0521617093
Product Dimensions: 2.5 x 1.9 x 0.2 cm
Shipping Weight: 739 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,013,712 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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"Ian Bent's foreward describes this intellectual biography as the first to survey the totality of Rameau's work, incorporating recently discovered materials, along with glimpses of his contemporaries, proponents and antagonists alike. The broad scope of the book's approach, balanced by an appropriate level of technical and theoretical detail, will be welcomed by theorists and scholars of music, 18th-century science, the Enlightenment, and the history of ideas." The Diapason

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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.

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