附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-270) and index.
Musical change and intellectual history -- Universal harmony -- Sense over reason : the anti-theoretical tradition -- The poetics of musical composition -- Humanist revival of the modes and genera -- Humanist reaction to polyphony -- Theories of monody and dramatic music -- Music and scientific discovery -- Ancient and modern : styles and genres -- Theories of the affections and imitation -- Music and rhetoric.
摘要:This essential summation of Palisca's life work was nearly finished by his death in 2001, and it was brought to completion by Thomas J. Mathiesen.
