Quid sit theoria musica?

 

The history of theory so far

 

Required Readings

 

Christensen, Thomas. “Music Theory in Clio’s Mirror.” In Music in the Mirror: Reflections on the History of Music Theory and Literature for the 21st Century, edited by Thomas J. Mathiesen, 1– 19. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002.

 

Christensen, Thomas. “Genres of Music Theory 1650–1750.” In Towards Tonality: Aspects of Baroque Music Theory, edited by Peter Dejans, 9–39. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2007.

 

Suggested Readings

 

Burnham, Scott, "Musical and Intellectual Values: Interpreting the History of Tonal Theory," Current Musicology 53 (1993), 76–88.

 

Christensen, Thomas, ed. The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

 

Christensen, Thomas, ed. Rameau and Musical Thought in the Enlightenment. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

 

Christensen, Thomas, ed. Stories of tonality in the age of François-Joseph Fétis. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2019.

 

Dahlhaus, Carl, Studies on the Origin of Harmonic Tonality.Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014.

 

Moreno, Jairo Musical Representations, Subjects, and Objects: The Construction of Musical Thought in Zarlino, Descartes, Rameau, and Weber. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004.

 

Palisca, Claude, Humanism in Italian Renaissance Musical Thought. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986.

 

Palisca, Claude, Music and Ideas in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2006.

 

Wason, Robert W. Viennese Harmonic Theory From Albrechtsberger to Schenker and Schoenberg. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1985.

 

Videos and further research

 

History of Music Theory Study Group