What Kind of Theory is Music Theory?
Epistemological Exercises in Music
Theory and Analysis

By Per F. Broman and Nora A. Engebretsen, Eds.
November 2008
Stockholm University
Distributed by
ISBN: 9789185445806
317 pages, Illustrated, 6 1/4 x 9 1/2"
$99.50 Paper Original

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Contents:

I. Music Theory and Science

Music Theory Art, Science, or What?
Playing the "Science Card": Science as Metaphor in the Practice of Music Theory
"Initial Conditions": Problems of Scope and Cause in
Music-Analytical Claims
Simplicity, Truth and Beauty in Music Theory
The Concept of Unity in Music

II. History

The Techne of Music Theory and the Epistemic Domain of the (Neo-)
Aristotelian Arts of Logos
Countless Western Art Music Recordings Towards a Theory of
What to Do With Them
When the Theorists are Silent: Mattheson, Bach, and the Development of
Historically Informed Analytical Techniques
Mathematics and Ideology in Modernist Music Theory

III Language and Metaphor

The Contribution of the Mind
A Woman's (Theoretical) Work
Musical Intuition and the Status of Tonal Theory as Cognitive Science

Music


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