Treatises Flashcards
Plato
“Republic” and “Timaeus”
Leonard Ratner (1980)
Classic Music: Expression, Form, and Style
Aristotle
“The Politics” and “The art of Rhetoric”
Ptolemy (2nd century CE)
Harmonika
Being and Time (1927)
Heidegger
Aristoxenus
Elementa Harmonica
The Phenomenology of Perception (1945)
Merlau-Ponty
Feeling and Form: A Theory of Art (1953)
Suzanne Langer
Raymond Monelle
The Sense of Music: Semiotic Essays (2000)
Music in the Galant Style
Robert Gjerdingen (2007)
Quintilianus
De Musica (3rd-4th centuries CE)
Kofi Agawu
Playing with Signs: A Semiotic Interpretation of Classic Music (1991) AND Music as Discourse: Semiotic Adventures in Romantic Music (2009)
Boethius
De institutione musica (abbr. De Musica) (early 6th century)
Zarlino
Le istutitioni harmoniche (1558)
Hucbald of St Amand
Musica (late 9th century)
Robert Hatten
Musical Meaning in Beethoven (1994)
Musica Disciplina (c. 840)
Aurelian of Réôme
Libellus cantus mensurabilis
Johannes de Muris (c. 1340)
Franco of Cologne
Ars Cantus Mensurabilis (c. 1280)
Micrologus
Guido of Arezzo (c. 1026)
Johannes de Garlandia
De mensurabili musica AND De Plana Musica (both c. 1240-1260)
Bartolomeo Ramis de Pareia
Musica Practica (1482)
Johannes Tinctoris
Diffinitorium musicae (1495) AND Liber de arte contracpuncti (1477)
Franchino Gaffurio
Theorica musice (1480, rev. 1492) AND Practica musice (1496)
Marchetto of Padua
Lucidarium (1317/18) AND - Pomerium in artae musicae mensuratae (“The Garden of Mensural Music”) (c. 1318-26)
Lawrence Kramer
Musical Meaning: Toward a Critical History (2001)
Roland Barthes
“Listening” (1985) and “The Grain of the Voice” (1981)
R Murray Schafer
“The Tuning of the World (The Soundscape)” (1977)
The Audible Past
Jonathan Sterne (2003)
David Huron
Sweet Anticipation: Music and the Psychology of Expectation (2005)
Hearing in Time: Psychological Aspects of Musical Meter
Justin London (2004, 2nd ed, 2012)
Conceptualizing Music: Cognitive Structure, Theory, and Analysis
Lawrence Zbikowski (2002)
Leonard Meyer
Emotion and Meaning in Music (1956)
Beyond Schenkerism: The Need for Alternatives in Music Analysis
Eugene Narmour (1977)
Pietro Aaron
Toscanello in Musica (1523),
Dodechachordon
Heinrich Glarean (1547)
Francisco de Salinas
De musica libri septum (1577)
Francisco de Montanos
Arte de musica theorica y pratica (1592)
Dialogo della musica antica et della moderna (1581)
Vincenzo Galilei
Joachim Burmeister
Musica Poetica (1606)
Johannes Lippius
Synopsis musicae novae (1612)
Marin Mersenne
Harmonie Universelle (1636)
Tractatus compositionis augmentatus (c. 1660)
Christoph Bernhard
Andreas Werchmeister
Musicalische Temperatur (1691)
Joseph Sauveur
Traité de la theorie de la musique (1697),
Gradus ad Parnassum
Johann-Joseph Fux (1725)
Johann Mattheson
Der Wollkommen Capellmeister (1739)
Johann David Heinichen
Der General-Bass in der Composition (1728)
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Traité de l’harmonie (1722), Nouveau système de musique théorique (1726), AND Génération harmonique (1737)
Trattato di musica (secondo la vera scienza dell’armonia) (Treaty of music according to the true science of harmony)
Giuseppe Tartini (1754)
Johann Adolf Scheibe
Der critische Musicus (journal from 1736-45)
Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg
Abhandlung von der Fuge (Treatise on Fugue) (1753–54)
Anfangsgründe zur musicalischen Setzkunst (The beginnings of musical composition)
Joseph Riepel
Johann Philipp Kirnberger
Die Kunst des reinen Satzes in der Musik (The art of strict musical composition) (1771)