Skip Nav Destination
Close Modal
1-20 of 214 Search Results for
history of music theory
Follow your search
Access your saved searches in your account
Would you like to receive an alert when new items match your search?
1
Journal Article
Journal of Music Theory (2010) 54 (2): 283–310.
Published: 01 October 2010
... Ethnomusicological Study of Arabic Writings on Music.” Asian Music 18/1 : 164 -96. Burford, Mark. 2006 . “Hanslick's Idealist Materialism.” 19th-Century Music 30/2 : 166 -81. Cook, Nicholas. 2002 . “Epistemologies of Music Theory.” In Cambridge History of Western Music Theory , ed. Thomas...
Journal Article
Journal of Music Theory (2022) 66 (2): 147–187.
Published: 01 October 2022
...Nathan John Martin Abstract The history of music theory, as it has usually been taught in the United States, has focused on a small canon of texts written mostly in Latin, Italian, French, and German. This article advocates a more expansive view of the subdiscipline's remit by way of three case...
Journal Article
Journal of Music Theory (2010) 54 (1): 1–4.
Published: 01 April 2010
... sought in music.” In this introduction, a brief history behind the issue is presented and a comparison is drawn between the tasks of music theory and Cavell's “demands” upon philosophy. By glossing Cavell's notion of the “scene of instruction,” questions of teaching, epistemic justification...
Journal Article
Journal of Music Theory (2022) 66 (2): 189–222.
Published: 01 October 2022
... to topics, with the topical explorations embedded within broader considerations of style, history, and musical structure and discourse. By the early 1960s, a culture of topical analysis, one that emphasized topics' expressive and formal functions, was in place, and over the next decade it began to transform...
FIGURES
| View All (9)
Journal Article
Journal of Music Theory (2016) 60 (1): 51–88.
Published: 01 April 2016
... to Schumann , ed. Perrey Beate , 268 – 91 . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Drabkin William . 2002 . “Heinrich Schenker.” In The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory , ed. Christensen Thomas , 812 – 43 . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Draheim...
Journal Article
Journal of Music Theory (2006) 50 (1): 7–23.
Published: 01 April 2006
... to the journal.” His inter- istitutioni harmoniche, 1558, translated by Guy A. Marco and
est stemmed from the course “History of Music Theory” Claude V. Palisca [New Haven: Yale University Press, 1968];
that he taught during 1953–57 and that Hindemith had it would take several years for the third...
Journal Article
Journal of Music Theory (2009) 53 (2): 163–190.
Published: 01 October 2009
... of Hermann von Helmholtz's On the Sensations of Tone , used the concertina as a demonstration tool in public lectures intended to popularize Helmholtz's acoustic theories. The English concertina's history reveals the peculiar fissures and overlaps between scientific and popular cultures, speculative...
Journal Article
Journal of Music Theory (2019) 63 (1): 71–102.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Áine Heneghan Liquidation is an idiosyncratic term in music theory. This article considers its origins in the writings and teaching of Arnold Schoenberg. Tracing its history uncovers the resonances that it held for him and refines our understanding of the term. Paying close attention...
Journal Article
Journal of Music Theory (2003) 47 (2): 363–369.
Published: 01 October 2003
.... Christensen, Thomas. 1993 . Rameau and Musical Thought in the Enlightenment. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ____. (Ed.) 2003 . Cambridge History of Western Music Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Cook, Nicholas. 2003 . “ Epistemologies of Music Theory .” In Christensen 2003...
Journal Article
Journal of Music Theory (2007) 51 (2): 333–340.
Published: 01 October 2007
...Paul Steinbeck George E. Lewis A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music University of Chicago Press, 2008: xlviii+676 pp. ($35.00 cloth) 2007 2007 Paul Steinbeck is a postdoctoral fellow in music theory at the University of Chicago. His current...
Journal Article
Journal of Music Theory (2024) 68 (1): 59–88.
Published: 01 April 2024
... they represent. The substitution partially redresses the marginalization of twentieth-century music with tonal elements (Benjamin Britten, Ralph Vaughn Williams, Phillip Glass, etc.) resulting from the division of theory into tonal and atonal, but it does nothing for the music outside of this history altogether...
Journal Article
Journal of Music Theory (2008) 52 (1): 151–158.
Published: 01 April 2008
.... 1992 -. Lexicon musicum Latinum medii aevi. Wörterbuch der lateinischen Musikterminologie des Mittelalters bis zum Ausgang des 15. Jahrhunderts. Munich: Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Christensen, Thomas, ed. 2002 . The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge...
Journal Article
Journal of Music Theory (2024) 68 (1): 89–97.
Published: 01 April 2024
... , and Straus Joseph , eds. 2016 . The Oxford Handbook of Music and Disability Studies . Oxford : Oxford University Press . Hyer Brian . ( 2002 ) 2008 . “ Tonality .” In The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory , edited by Christensen Thomas , 726 – 52 . Cambridge : Cambridge...
Journal Article
Journal of Music Theory (2022) 66 (1): 63–91.
Published: 01 April 2022
... music theorist Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683–1764), especially Traité de l'harmonie ( 1722 ), has had in the history of music theory is indisputable. Ironically, since the Parisian pedagogy mainly relied on practical methods associated with the old Italian conservatories, the more speculative theory...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Journal of Music Theory (2024) 68 (1): 141–148.
Published: 01 April 2024
... . Burnham Scott . 2002 . “ Form .” In The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory , edited by Christensen Thomas , 880 – 906 . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Byros Vasili . 2012 . “ Meyer's Anvil: Revisiting the Schema Concept .” Music Analysis 31 , no. 3 : 273...
Journal Article
Journal of Music Theory (2021) 65 (1): 171–183.
Published: 01 April 2021
... because the organs of the brain are not of the same dimensions” (2:1). For this reason, he maintained, the music of non-Aryan races was comparatively less evolved. Thus the Histoire générale affiliated the global history of theory with the pernicious racial pseudosciences that motivated French...
Journal Article
Journal of Music Theory (2006) 50 (1): 128–139.
Published: 01 April 2006
...Daniel Harrison Richard Taruskin The Oxford History of Western Music ; Oxford University Press, 2004: 6 vols., xxxiii+854+758+830+826+557+329 ($699.00 cloth) © 2008 by Yale University 2008 Daniel Harrison is the Allen Forte Professor of Music Theory at Yale University. His...
Journal Article
Journal of Music Theory (2022) 66 (2): 255–261.
Published: 01 October 2022
.... 2015 . The Music of Hermannus Contractus . Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press . Hagel Stefan . 2000 . Modulation in altgriechischer Musik . Frankfurt : Peter Lang . Heard Edmund Brooks . 1966 . “ Alia Musica : A Chapter in the History of Music Theory .” PhD diss...
Journal Article
Journal of Music Theory (2008) 52 (1): 9–12.
Published: 01 April 2008
... Theory.” Musica Disciplina 31: 5–30.
1978. “ Discant and the Theory of Fifthing.” Acta Musicologica 50/1–2: 241–75.
1979. “ The Myth of ‘Saint Martial’ Polyphony: A Study of the Sources.” Musica
Disciplina: A Yearbook of the History of Music 33: 5–26.
1980. Various articles in The New...
Journal Article
Journal of Music Theory (2024) 68 (1): 107–115.
Published: 01 April 2024
... scope nevertheless broadened, see Tymoczko 2023 . 2 Hyer's article—which later reappeared in The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory —gets only a glancing citation in Yust's essay. I wish he would have engaged it more robustly, especially as Hyer explicitly addresses many of the same...
1
