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 Coronet Books Inc.
ISBN: 9789185445806
317 pages, Illustrated, 6 1/4 x 9 1/2"
$99.50 Paper Original
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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