Music Theory and Natural Order from the Renaissance to the Early Twentieth Century

Contents

• Part I . The Disenchantment and Re-enchantment of Music:
• 1. Vincenzo Galilei, modernity and the division of nature Daniel Chua;
• 2. 'Tis nature's voice': music, natural philosophy and the hidden world in seventeenth-century England Linda Phyllis Austern;
• 3. The 'gift of nature': musical 'instinct' and musical cognition in Rameau David Cohen;
• 4. Nietzsche, Riemann, Wagner: when music lies Leslie David Blasius;
• Part II . Natural Forms - Forming Nature:
• 5. The second nature of sonata form Scott Burnham;
• 6. August Halm's two cultures as nature Alexander Rehding;
• 7. Seduced by notation: Oettingen's topography of the major-minor system Suzannah Clark;
• Part III . Constructions of Identity:
• 8. The gendered eye: music analysis and the scientific outlook in German early Romantic music theory Ian Biddle;
• 9. On the primitives in music theory: the savage and subconscious as sources of analytical authority Peter A. Hoyt.