Music and Ideas in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries - Palisca, Claude V. (Chicago University of Illinois Press, 2006)
Musical change and intellectual history -- Universal harmony -- Sense over reason : the anti-theoretical tradition -- The poetics of musical composition -- Humanist revival of the modes and genera -- Humanist reaction to polyphony -- Theories of monody and dramaitc music -- Music and scientific discovery -- Ancient and modern : styles and genres -- Theories of the affections and imitation -- Music and rhetoric.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-270) and index.
Description based on print version record.
Keywords: 16th Century (1501-1600); 17th Century (1601-1700); Music history; Music theory; Rhetoric