Reading Renaissance Music Theory: Hearing with the Eyes (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521028196)

This groundbreaking book offers a new perspective on a central group of music theory treatises that have long formed a background to the study of Renaissance music. Taking theorists' music examples as a point of departure, it explores fundamental questions about how music was read, and by whom, situating the reading in specific cultural contexts. In particular it illuminates the ways in which the choices of Renaissance theorists have shaped later interpretation of earlier praxis, and reflexively the ways in which modern theory has been mapped on to that practice.

Author: Cristle Collins Judd
ISBN-10: 0521028191
ISBN-13: 9780521028196
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/02/2006
Pages: 364
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.28lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.75d