{"product_id":"rameau-and-musical-thought-in-the-enlightenment-paperback-9780521617093","title":"Rameau and Musical Thought in the Enlightenment (Paperback) 9780521617093","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eRameau and Musical Thought in the Enlightenment\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis is the first intellectual biography of the French composer and theorist Jean-Philippe Rameau, the 'Newton of the Arts'.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eThomas Christensen (Author), Ian Bent (Foreword by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521617093, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 16 December 2004\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e348 pages, 34 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e24.6 x 18.9 x 1.8 cm, 0.62 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Foreword by Ian Bent\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. Rameau and the Enlightenment\u003cbr\u003e 2. Rameau as music theorist\u003cbr\u003e 3. Precursors of harmonic theory\u003cbr\u003e 4. The generative fundamental\u003cbr\u003e 5. The fundamental bass\u003cbr\u003e 6. The corps sonore\u003cbr\u003e 7. Mode and modulation\u003cbr\u003e 8. Rameau and the philosophes\u003cbr\u003e 9. D'Alembert\u003cbr\u003e 10. The final years\u003cbr\u003e Appendices\u003cbr\u003e Select bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index of subjects\u003cbr\u003e Index of proper names.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Theory of music \u0026amp; musicology [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Theory of music \u0026amp; musicology\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Theory%20of%20music%20\u0026amp;%20musicology%20%5BAVA%5D%22\"\u003eAVA\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46003696402712,"sku":"9780521617093","price":25.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521617093i_21394e86-4d3d-4af5-a74c-cc163112980e.jpg?v=1691370587","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/rameau-and-musical-thought-in-the-enlightenment-paperback-9780521617093","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}