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The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory

Edited by:
Thomas Christensen

Online Publication Date:
March 2008

Print Publication Year:
2002

Hardback ISBN:
9780521623711

Online ISBN:
9781139053471

The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory is the first comprehensive history of Western music theory to be published in the English language. A collaborative project by leading music theorists and historians, the volume traces the rich panorama of music-theoretical thought from the Ancient Greeks to the present day. Richly enhanced with illustrations, graphics, examples and cross-citations, as well as being thoroughly indexed and supplemented by comprehensive bibliographies, this book will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars alike.

Reviews:

"This first single-volume history of music theory in English is a significant addition to literature about music. [...] It should be part of all academic music collections" Choice
"[This] work is an extremely valuable contribution to the history of music theory...the essays are of high quality, and the scholarship is impeccable...Nearly every reader will find something of value herein. The book can serve both as a reference work and as a snapshot of current theoretical opinion. It belongs on the shelf of every scholar who has a serious interest in music theory and its development." Isis
This remarkable book not only offers the reader a detailed account of the entire history of theoretical writing about Western music from the ancient Greeks to modern times, but also provides an incisive critique of the original objectives and ultimate significance of such writing. The various contributors are all specialists well able to encapsulate as well as clarify the essence of complex materials. In addition, the excellent selection of plates, tables and examples, coupled with comprehensive bibliographies, provides rich and vivid contexts for subject-matter that is never merely abstract, but satisfyingly linked to the particulars of musical works. All teachers, researchers and students who take music seriously will find The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory enormously stimulating.--Arnold Whittall, Professor Emeritus of Music Theory & Analysis, King's College London

Frontmatter
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pp. i-xxiv

PART I - DISCIPLINING MUSIC THEORY

1 - Mapping the terrain by Leslie Blasius
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pp. 25-45

2 - Musica practica: music theory as pedagogy by Robert W. Wason
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pp. 46-77

3 - Epistemologies of music theory by Nicholas Cook
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pp. 78-106

PART II - SPECULATIVE TRADITIONS

4 - Greek music theory by Thomas J. Mathiesen
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pp. 107-135

5 - The transmission of ancient music theory into the Middle Ages by Calvin M. Bower
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pp. 136-167

7 - Tuning and temperament by Rudolf Rasch
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pp. 193-222

8 - The role of harmonics in the scientific revolution by Penelope Gouk
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pp. 223-245

9 - From acoustics to Tonpsychologie by Burdette Green and David Butler
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pp. 246-271

10 - Music theory and mathematics by Catherine Nolan
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pp. 272-304

PART III - REGULATIVE TRADITIONS

A - Mapping tonal spaces

11 - Notes, scales, and modes in the earlier Middle Ages by David E. Cohen
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pp. 305-363

13 - Tonal organization in seventeenth-century music theory by Gregory Barnett
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pp. 407-455

B - Compositional Theory

15 - Organum – discantus – contrapunctus in the Middle Ages by Sarah Fuller
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pp. 477-502

16 - Counterpoint pedagogy in the Renaissance by Peter Schubert
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pp. 503-533

18 - Steps to Parnassus: contrapuntal theory in 1725 precursors and successors by Ian Bent
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pp. 554-602

C - Time

20 - The evolution of rhythmic notation by Anna Maria and Busse Berger
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pp. 628-656

21 - Theories of musical rhythm in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by William E. Caplin
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pp. 657-694

22 - Rhythm in twentieth-century theory by Justin London
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pp. 695-725

D - Tonality

24 - Rameau and eighteenth-century harmonic theory by Joel Lester
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pp. 753-777

25 - Nineteenth-century harmonic theory: the Austro-German legacy by David W. Bernstein
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pp. 778-811

26 - Heinrich Schenker by William Drabkin
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pp. 812-844

PART IV - DESCRIPTIVE TRADITIONS

A - Models of music analysis

27 - Music and rhetoric by Patrick McCreless
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pp. 845-879

29 - Thematic and motivic analysis by Jonathan Dunsby
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pp. 907-926

B - Music psychology

31 - The psychology of music by Robert Gjerdingen
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pp. 956-981

Index of authors

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pp. 982-992

Index of subjects

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pp. 993-998

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