Focusing on the ‘long’ nineteenth century (roughly 1770-1920), this symposium considers historical theories of auditory perception and cognition, intersections between the sonic and ‘neural’ sciences, and overlaps among scientific and aesthetic modes of attending.
Bringing empirical approaches together with historicist and analytical work, the second meeting of the "Histories of Modern Rhythmic Theory" working group will cultivate new critical and comparative perspectives on historical rhythmic and metric theory.
Rameau’s final treatise, the Code de musique pratique (1760), represents, in Erwin Jacobi’s phrase, a summa of the composer’s music-theoretical accomplishments. Yet the Code has attracted far less attention from historians of theory than Rameau’s earlier writings...
This seminar will provide an occasion to reflect on the relationship between Rameau’s practical and speculative theorizing (and about that between Geschichte der Musiktheorie and historische Satzlehre more generally), on the evolution of Rameau’s harmonic theory between 1722 and 1760 ...
