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Rameau and Rousseau: Harmony and History in the Age of Reason
Ort / Verlag
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
Erscheinungsjahr
2009
Quelle
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses A&I
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Rousseau's articles on music for Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopédie , and to a lesser extent his Dictionnaire de musique, have rarely attracted the scholarly attention they deserve. As a result, the pivotal role that Rousseau played in the early French reception of Rameau's theory of harmony has never been fully appreciated. Far from being a quarrel over musical aesthetics, Rousseau's dispute with Rameau raised fundamental questions about the composer's theory of harmony. Rousseau interrogated the empirical adequacy of Rameau's theory, the soundness of its foundations, the logic of its derivation, and its pretension to universality. Over the course of his criticism, Rousseau came to regard tonal harmony as a historically-induced particularity of Western music to be explained through historical inquiry. In this respect, he anticipates a range of ideas that historians of music theory have associated far more readily with François-Joseph Fétis.