The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory

Contents

• Introduction Thomas Christensen;
• Part I . Disciplining Music Theory:
• 1. Mapping the terrain Leslie Blasius;
• 2. Musica practica: music theory as pedagogy Robert W. Wason;
• 3. Epistemologies of music theory Nicholas Cook;
• Part II . Speculative Traditions:
• 4. Greek music theory Thomas J. Mathiesen;
• 5. The transmission of ancient music theory into the Middle Ages Calvin Bower;
• 6. Medieval canonics Jan Herlinger;
• 7. Tuning and temperament Rudolf Rasch;
• 8. The role of harmonics in the scientific revolution Penelope Gouk;
• 9. From acoustics to tonpsychologie Burdette Green and David Butler;
• 10. Music theory and mathematics Catherine Nolan;
• Part III . Regulative Traditions:
• 11. Notes, scales, and modes in Carolingian thought David Cohen;
• 12. Renaissance modal theory: theoretical, compositional and editorial perspectives Cristle Collins Judd;
• 13. Tonal organization in seventeenth-century music theory Gregory Barnett;
• 14. Dualist tonal space and transformation in the nineteenth century Henry Klumpenhouwer;
• 15. Organum, diaphonia, discantus, contrapunctus in the Middle Ages Sarah Fuller;
• 16. Counterpoint pedagogy in the Renaissance Peter Schubert;
• 17. Performance theory Albert Cohen;
• 18. Steps to Parnassus: contrapuntal theory in 1725: precursors and successors Ian Bent;
• 19. Twelve-tone theory John Covach;
• 20. The evolution of rhythmic notation Anna Maria Busse Berger;
• 21. Theories of musical rhythm in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries William Caplin;
• 22. Rhythm in twentieth-century theory Justin London;
• 23. Tonality Brian Hyer;
• 24. Rameau and eighteenth-century harmonic theory Joel Lester;
• 25. Nineteenth-century harmonic theory: the Austro-German legacy David W. Bernstein;
• 26. Heinrich Schenker William Drabkin;
• Part IV . Descriptive Traditions:
• 27. Music and rhetoric Patrick McCreless;
• 28. Form Scott Burnham;
• 29. Thematic and motivic analysis Jonathan Dunsby;
• 30. Energetics Lee Rothfarb;
• 31. The psychology of music Robert Gjerdingen.