Music and ideas in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Claude V. Palisca.

Author: Palisca, Claude V.

Imprint:Chicago : University of Illinois Press, c2006.

Descriptionx, 302 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Note: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 dramaitc music -- Music and scientific discovery -- Ancient and modern : styles and genres -- Theories of the affections and imitation -- Music and rhetoric.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-270) and index.

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