Jairo Moreno adapts the methodologies and nomenclature of Foucault's"archaeology of knowledge" and applies it through individual case studiesto the theoretical writings of Zarlino, Descartes, Rameau, and Weber. His conclusionsummarizes the conditions -- musical, philosophical, and historical -- that"make a certain form of thought about music necessary and possible at the timeit emerges."
Musical Meaning and Interpretation -- Robert S.Hatten, editor
Acknowledgments
Note on Translations
Introduction
1. Zarlino: Instituting Knowledge in the Time of Correspondences
2. The Representation of Order: Perception and the Early Modern Subject in Descartes's Compendium musicae
3. The Complicity of the Imagination: Representation, Subject, and System in Rameau
4. Gottfried Weber and Mozart's K. 465: The Contents and Discontents of the Listening Subject
Epilogue
Glossary of Greek Terms
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Jairo Moreno adapts the methodologies and nomenclature of Foucault's"archaeology of knowledge" and applies it through individual case studiesto the theoretical writings of Zarlino, Descartes, Rameau, and Weber. His conclusionsummarizes the conditions -- musical, philosophical, and historical -- that"make a certain form of thought about music necessary and possible at the timeit emerges."
Musical Meaning and Interpretation -- Robert S.Hatten, editor
Acknowledgments
Note on Translations
Introduction
1. Zarlino: Instituting Knowledge in the Time of Correspondences
2. The Representation of Order: Perception and the Early Modern Subject in Descartes's Compendium musicae
3. The Complicity of the Imagination: Representation, Subject, and System in Rameau
4. Gottfried Weber and Mozart's K. 465: The Contents and Discontents of the Listening Subject
Epilogue
Glossary of Greek Terms
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
Note on Translations
Introduction
1. Zarlino: Instituting Knowledge in the Time of
Correspondences
2. The Representation of Order: Perception and the Early Modern
Subject in Descartes's Compendium musicae
3. The Complicity of the Imagination: Representation, Subject, and
System in Rameau
4. Gottfried Weber and Mozart's K. 465: The Contents and
Discontents of the Listening Subject
Epilogue
Glossary of Greek Terms
Notes
Bibliography
Index
A provocative application of Foucault's ideas to music theory.
Jairo Moreno is Associate Professor of Music Theory at Duke University. His research and publications focus on the history and philosophy of music theory.
[An] ambitious and impressive attempt to bring the whole weight of
the Western epistemological tradition—stretching back to Aristotle
and Plato—to bear on music theoretical texts, to bring them back
into the fold of Western thought, and to lend these classic
theoretical texts a new relevance.47.2 2003
*Journal of Music Theory*
In this compelling and engaging study, Moreno (Duke Univ.) explores
the notion that the developments of music theory are part and
parcel of the philosophical conditions of a specific historical
period, and that they can act as representations of a model of
thinking outside the scope of aesthetic concern. Indeed, the author
outlines the chronological relationships between the function of
music theory, the act of music composition, and the production of
music itself. Particularly interesting is Moreno's discussion of
music theory's journey into and out of the realm of science and the
related study of nature, which itself takes on a philosophical
perspective. Replete with comparative examples from numerous music
theory treatises and their contemporary philosophical discourses
and religious thought, the author connects the various fields to
one another under the common umbrella of the zeitgeist of each
particular era. This rigorous text will be accessible only to
scholars of music theory and philosophy, but it will become a
milestone in the field, opening up a new area for comparative
research. Summing Up: Essential. Graduate and research collections
only. —J. Rubin, University of MinnesotaOctober 2005
*Choice*
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