Rameau and Musical Thought in the Enlightenment

by Thomas Street Christensen

This is the first intellectual biography of the French composer and theorist Jean-Philippe Rameau. Rameau synthesised the vocabulary and grammar of musical practice into a concise scientific system, earning himself the popular title of 'Newton of the Arts'. Ranging widely over the musical and intellectual thought of the eighteenth century, Thomas Christensen is able to orient Rameau's accomplishments in the light of speculative and practical considerations...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052161709X
• ISBN13: 9780521617093
• Release Date: December 2004
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 1.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.4" x 9.7"