Musical Representations, Subjects, and Objects

by Moreno, Jairo

• ISBN13: 9780253344571
• ISBN10: 0253344573
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-12-15
• Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr

Summary

Jairo Moreno adapts the methodologies and nomenclature of Foucault's "archaeology of knowledge" and applies it through individual case studies to the theoretical writings of Zarlino, Descartes, Rameau, and Weber. His conclusion summarizes the conditions -- musical, philosophical, and historical -- that "make a certain form of thought about music necessary and possible at the time it emerges."Musical Meaning and Interpretation -- Robert S. Hatten, editor

Author Biography

Jairo Moreno is Associate Professor of Music Theory at Duke University. His research and publications focus on the history and philosophy of music theory.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Note on Translations	ix
Introduction	1	(24)
Zarlino: Instituting Knowledge in the Time of Correspondences	25	(25)
The Representation of Order: Perception and the Early Modern Subject in Descartes's Compendium musicae	50	(35)
The Complicity of the Imagination: Representation, Subject, and System in Rameau	85	(43)
Gottfried Weber and Mozart's K. 465: The Contents and Discontents of the Listening Subject	128	(33)
Epilogue	161	(8)
Glossary of Greek Terms	169	(2)
Notes	171	(50)
Bibliography	221	(12)
Index	233