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Music and ideas in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries

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
eBook, English, 2006
University of Illinois Press, Chicago, 2006
History
1 online resource
9780252092077, 9781283583435, 0252092074, 1283583437
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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