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This is a working bibliography for Music 37200, Larry Zbikowski's course in the history
of music theory, Winter term 2005.
N.B.: The abbreviation CHWMT stands for The Cambridge History of Western Music
Theory, Thomas Christensen, ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
[ML3800 .C165 2002]
A.
Agawu, Victor Kofi. Playing with Signs: A Semiotic Interpretation of Classical Music.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991.
B.
Baker, Nancy Kovaleff. An Ars Poetica for Music: Reichas System of Syntax and
Structure. In Musical Humanism and Its Legacy: Essays in Honor of Claude V. Palisca,
edited by Nancy Kovaleff Baker and Barbara Russano Hanning, 419-49. Styvesant, New
York: Pendragon Press, 1992.
Baker, Nancy Kovaleff, and Thomas Christensen, eds. and trans. Aesthetics and the Art of
Musical Composition in the German Enlightenment: Selected Writings of Johann Georg
Sulzer and Heinrich Christoph Koch. Cambridge Studies in Music Theory and Analysis,
vol. 7. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Call number: ML3877 .S85130 1995
Barzun, Jacques. Berlioz on the Future of Rhythm. In Berlioz and the Romantic
Century. New York, Columbia University Press, 1969. 2: 336-339.
Call number: ML410 .B6B302]
Benary, Peter. Die deutsche Kompositionlehre des 18. Jahrhunderts. Leipzig: Breitkopf
und Hrtel, 1962.
Call number: ML430 .B46
Bent, Ian. The Compositional Process in Music Theory, 1713-1850. Music Analysis 3
(1984): 29-55.
Bent, Ian (editor). Music Analysis in the Nineteenth Century. Cambridge Readings in the
Literature of Music. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994:
Bent, Ian, ed. Music Theory in the Age of Romanticism. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1996.
Call number: M6 .M91 1996 c.1 Gen
Blacking, John. The Problem of Ethnic Perceptions in the Semiotics of Music. In The
Sign in Music and Literature, edited by Wendy Steiner, 184-94. Austin: University of
Texas Press, 1981.
Call number: NX180 .S46S57
Bonds, Mark Evan. Wordless Rhetoric: Musical Form and the Metaphor of Oration.
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1991.
Call number: ML3845 .B60 1991
Boyd, Malcom, ed. Music and the French Revolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1992.
Call number: ML270.3 .M880 1992
Brossard, Sebastien de. Dictionary of Music. Trans. and ed. Albion Gruber. Henryville,
Pa.: Institute of Mediaeval Music, 1982.
Call number: ML108 .B64130 1982
Buelow, George J. Johann Mattheson and the Invention of the Affektenlehre. In New
Mattheson Studies, edited by George J. Buelow and Hans Joachim Marx, 393-407.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983.
Call number: ML55 .M436
Burnham, Scott. A. B. Marx and the Gendering of Sonata Form. In Music Theory in
the Age of Romanticism: 163-186.
Burnham, Scott. The Role of Sonata Form in A. B. Marxs Theory of Form. Journal of
Music Theory 33, no. 2 (Fall 1989): 247-71.
Burnham, Scott. The Second Nature of Sonata Form. In Music Theory and Natural
Order: 111-141.
C.
Carpenter, Patricia, and Severine Neff. Commentary. In The Musical Idea and the
Logic, Technique, and Art of Its Presentation, by Arnold Schoenberg, 1-74. New York:
Columbia University Press, 1995.
Call number: M9130 1995 c.1 Gen
Christensen, Thomas. Ftis and emerging tonal consciousness, in Ian Bent, ed. Music
Theory in the Age of Romanticism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996): 37-
56.
Christensen, Thomas. Music Theory and Its Histories. In Music Theory and the
Exploration of the Past, edited by Christopher Hatch and David W. Bernstein, 9-39.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.
Call number: MT6 .M962050 1993
Chua, Daniel K. L. Vincenzo Galilei, Modernity and the Division of Nature. In Music
Theory and Natural Order: 17-29.
Churgin, Bathia. Francesco Galeazzi's Description (1796) of Sonata Form, JAMS 21/2
(1968): 181-199.
Clarke, Suzannah, and Alexander Rehding, eds. Music Theory and Natural Order from
the Renaissance to the Early Twentieth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2001.
Call number: ML3800 .M885 2001
Clarke, Suzannah. Seduced by Notation: Oettingens Topography of the Major-Minor
System. In Music Theory and Natural Order: 161-80.
Cohen, Albert. Music in the French Royal Academy of Sciences: A Study in the Evolution
of Musical Thought. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1981.
Call number: ML270.8 .P2A19
Cohen, David E. The Gift of Nature: Musical Instinct and Musical Cognition in
Rameau. In Music Theory and Natural Order: 68-92.
Cohen, H. F. Quantifying Music: The Science of Music at the First Stage of the Scientific
Revolution, 1580-1650. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1984.
Call number: ML3807 .C67 Mu [missing]
Cooper, Grosvenor W., and Leonard B. Meyer. The Rhythmic Structure of Music
(Chicago, 1960)
Call number: MT42 .C78
Cumming, Naomi. The Subjectivities of Erbarme Dich. Music Analysis 16, no. 1
(March 1997): 5-44.
Cumming, Naomi. The Sonic Self: Musical Subjectivity and Signification. Advances in
Semiotics. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000.
Call number: ML3845 .C86 2000
Czerny, Carl. School of practical composition: complete treatise on the composition of all
kinds of music, both instrumental and vocal together with a treatise on instrumentation,
in three volumes; opus 600, trans. John Bishop [repr. London: R. Cocks, 1848] (New
York : Da Capo Press, 1979)
Call number: MT58 .C99 v. 1-3
D.
Dahlhaus, Carl. Musiktheorie im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert, Erster Teil: Grundzge einer
Systematik. Geschichte der Musiktheorie, vol. 10. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche
Buchgesellschaft, 1984.
Call number: ML430 .G47 v.10
Dahlhaus, Carl. Musiktheorie im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert, Zweiter Teil: Deutschland.
Geschichte der Musiktheorie, vol. 11. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft,
1984.
Call number: ML430 .G47 v.11
Dahlhaus, Carl. Studies on the Origins of Harmonic Tonality. Translated by Robert O.
Gjerdingen. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990.
Call number: ML3811 .D39130 1990 Mu
Damschroeder, David, and David Russell Williams. Music Theory from Zarlino to
Schenker: A Bibliography and Guide. Stuyvesant, New York: Pendragon Press, 1990.
Call number: ML128 .T5D270 1990 Mu
E.
Eckert, Stefan. Ars Combinatoria, Dialogue Structure, and Musical Practice in Joseph
Riepels Anfangsgrnde Zur Musicalischen Setzkunst. Ph.D. diss. Stony Brook, New
York: State University of New York at Stony Brook, 2000.
F.
Fauvel, John, Raymond Flood, and Robin Wilson, eds. Music and Mathematics: From
Pythagoras to Fractals. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Call no.: ML3800 .M87 2003
Field, J. V. Musical Cosmology: Kepler and His Readers. In Music and Mathematics:
From Pythagoras to Fractals: 29-44.
G.
Gozza, Paolo, ed. Number to Sound: The Musical Way to the Scientific Revolution.
Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000.
Call no.: ML3800 .N9 1999
Grave, Floyd K., and Grave Margaret G. In Praise of Harmony: The Teachings of Abb
Georg Joseph Vogler. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1988.
Call number: ML410 .V886 G77 1988 Mu
H.
Hasty, Christopher. Just in Time for More DichotomiesA Hasty Response, Music
Theory Spectrum 21/2 (Fall, 1999) 275-293
Hatch, Christopher, and David W. Bernstein, eds. Music Theory and the Exploration of
the Past. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.
Call number: MT6 .M962050 1993
Hatten, Robert. Review of Agawu, Playing with Signs, and Nattiez, Music and
Discourse. Music Theory Spectrum 14, no. 1 (1992): 88-98.
Hatten, Robert. Interpreting Musical Gestures, Topics, and Tropes: Mozart, Beethoven,
Schubert. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2004.
Call number:
Henneberg, Gudrun. Theorien zur Rhythmik und Metrik. Tutzing: Hans Schneider, 1974.
Call number: ML437.H51
Houle, George. Meter in Music, 1600-1800: Performance, Perception, and Notation.
Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1987.
Call number: MT75 .H70 1987
Hoyt, Peter. Review of Mark Evan Bonds, Wordless Rhetoric. Journal of Music
Theory 38, no. 1 (Spring 1994): 123-43. of journal
Hoyt, Peter. The Concept of Dveloppement in the Early Nineteenth Century. In Music
Theory in the Age of Romanticism: 141-62.
I.
J.
K.
Kirnberger, Johann Philipp. The Art of Strict Musical Composition. Translated by David
Beach and Jurgen Thym. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982.
Call number: MT40 .K604 Mu
Koch, Heinrich Christoph. Musikalisches Lexicon. Heidelberg: Mohr und Winter, 1816.
Call number: ML108 .K76
Kurth, Ernst. Ernst Kurth: Selected Writings. Edited and translated by Lee A. Rothfarb.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
Call number: MT6 .K995E7150 1991
Ernst Kurth, Die Voraussetzungen der theoretischen Harmonik und der tonalen
Darstellungssysteme. Bern: Akademische Buchhandlungen von Max Dreschel, 1913.
(Bern: 1947 [1930])
Call number: MT 50 .K92
L.
Lerdahl, Fred, and Ray Jackendoff. A Generative Theory of Tonal Music. Cambridge,
Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1983.
Call number: MT6 .L61
Lester, Joel. Between Modes and Keys: German Theory, 15921802. Stuyvesant, New
York: Pendragon Press, 1989.
Call number: ML430 .L470 1989 Mu
Joel Lester, Rameau and Eighteenth-Century Harmonic Theory, CHWMT, pp. 753-777.
Lewin, David. Concerning the Inspired Revelation of F.-J. Ftis, Theoria 2 (1987): pp.
1-12.
Lewin, David. Some Investigations Into Foreground Rhythmic and Metric Patterning.
In Music Theory: Special Topics, edited by Richmond Browne, 101-37. New York:
Academic Press, 1981.
Listenius, Nicolas. Music (Musica). 1549 ed. Translated by Albert Seay. Colorado
Springs, Colorado: Colorado College Music Press, 1975.
Call number: MT5.5 .L771
Lobe, Johann Christian. First-Movement Form in the String Quartet [:Beethoven: Op. 18
no. 2 in G: Allegro], in Fugue, Form and Style, vol. 1 of Music Analysis in the
Nineteenth Century ed. Ian Bent, pp. 197-220.
London, Justin. Hastys Dichotomy, Music Theory Spectrum 21, no. 2 (Fall, 1999):
260-274.
M.
Adolph Bernhard Marx, Musical Form in the Age of Beethoven: Selected Writings on
Theory and Method. Edited and translated by Scott G. Burnham. Cambridge Studies in
Music Theory and Analysis, vol. 12. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Call number: MT6 .M313 1997
Marx, Adolph Bernhard. Die Lehre von der musikalischen Komposition, praktisch
theoretisch. 4th ed. Leipzig: Breitkopf & Hrtel, 1841-47
Call number: MT40 .M39 v. 1-4
Masson, Charles. Nouveau Trait Des Regles Pour la Composition de la Musique. With
an introduction by Imogene Horsley. 1694. New York: Da Capo Press, 1967.
Call number: MT40. M42
Morgan, Robert P. The Theory and Analysis of Tonal Rhythm, The Musical Quarterly
64/4 (October 1978): 436-440.
Monelle, Raymond. The Sense of Music: Semiotic Essays. Princeton, New Jersey:
Princeton University Press, 2000.
Call number:
N.
Neubauer, John. The Emancipation of Music from Language: Departure from Mimesis in
Eighteenth-Century Aesthetics. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986.
Call number: ML3849 .N47
O.
P.
Powers, Harold. Language Models and Musical Analysis. Ethnomusicology 24, no. 1
(1980): 1-60.
R.
Rantala, Veikko, Lewis Rowell, and Eero Tarasti, eds. Essays on the Philosophy of Music.
Acta Philosophica Fennica, vol. 43. Helsinki: Philosophical Society of Finland, 1988.
Call number: ML3800 .E8 1988;
Rehding, Alexander. August Halms Two Cultures of Nature. In Music Theory and
Natural Order: 142-60.
Rehding, Alexander. Hugo Riemann and the Birth of Modern Musicology. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Call number: ML423 .R45R44 2003
Renwick, William, ed. The Langloz Manuscript: Fugal Improvisation Through Figured
Bass. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Call number: MT59 .L36 2001;
Riemann, Hugo. Handbuch der Harmonielehre. 2d ed. Leipzig: Breitkopf & Hrtel,
1887.
Call number: Microfrm MT 37
Riemann, Hugo. System der musikalischen Rhythmik und Metrik. Leipzig: Breitkopf &
Hrtel, 1903.
Call number: Call number: MT42 .R55;
Rothstein, William. Phrase Rhythm in Tonal Music. New York: Schirmer Books, 1989.
Call number: MT42 .R840 1989 Mu
S.
Saslaw, Janna K. Gottfried Weber and the Concept of Mehrdeutigkeit. Ph.D. diss. New
York: Columbia University, 1996.
Call number: ML410 .W479S37 2002
Schenker, Heinrich. Harmony. Ed. and annotator Oswald Jonas. Translated by Elisabeth
Mann Borgese. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1954.
Call number: MT50 .S32
Schoenberg, Arnold. Structural Functions of Harmony. Rev. ed. New York: W. W. Norton
& Company, Inc., 1969.
Call number: MT50 .S37 1969
Schoenberg, Arnold. The Musical Idea and the Logic, Technique, and Art of Its
Presentation. Edited and translated by Patricia Carpenter and Severine Neff. New York:
Columbia University Press, 1995.
Call number: MT6 .S316M9130 1995 c.1 Gen
Sisman, Elaine. Small and Expanded Forms: Kochs Model and Haydns Music. The
Musical Quarterly 48, no. 4 (October 1982): 444-75.
Smither, Howard Elbert. Theories of Rhythm in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
with a Contribution to the Theory of Rhythm for the Study of Twentieth-Century Music.
Ph.D. diss. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University, 1960.
Call number: microfm ML 593
T.
Tarasti, Eero, ed. Musical Signification: Essays in the Semiotic Theory and Analysis of
Music. Approaches to Semiotics, vol. 121. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1995.
Call number: ML3845 .M9760 1995
Thomas, Downing A. Music and the Origins of Language: Theories from the French
Enlightenment. New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Call number: P116 .T470 1995
V.
Vogler, Georg Joseph. Tonwissenschaft und Tonsetzkunst. 1776. Hildesheim: Georg Olms
Verlag, Kuhrfrstlichen Druckerei, 1970.
Call number: MT40 .V88
W.
Walker, Paul. Theories of Fugue from the Age of Josquin to the Age of Bach. Rochester,
New York: University of Rochester Press, 2000.
Call number: ML448 .W25 2000
Wuensch, Gerhard. Hugo Riemanns Musical Theory. Studies in Music from the
University of Western Ontario 2 (1977): 108-24.
Call number: ML5 .U59 v.1-2
Y.
Z.
Zaminer, Friedrich, ed. Ideen zu einer Geschichte der Musiktheorie. Geschichte der
Musiktheorie, vol. 1. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1985.
Call number: ML430 .G47 v.1
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