A master musicologist's demonstration of the surprising interrelationships between music and the intellectual history
Claude V. Palisca (1921-2001) was Henry L. and Lucy G. Moses Professor of Music at Yale University. Thomas J. Mathiesen is the director of the Center for the History of Music Theory and Literature at Indiana University.
Awarded the ASCAP Deems Taylor Special Recognition Award
(2007).
"Engagingly written for non-specialists (and even non-musicians),
yet invaluable for the expert, this remarkable book is both the
final summation of a lifetime's distinguished scholarship by the
acknowledged master in the field and a stimulating, thorough and
authoritative introduction to nearly every aspect of a lively and
complex cultural and intellectual milieu of great historical
significance: the musical world of the Renaissance and early
Baroque, when the rediscovery of classical antiquity helped
transmute the medieval into the modern. A profoundly generous
legacy by a master scholar and teacher."--David E. Cohen, Columbia
University
"It is hard to imagine anyone better qualified to write this book
than Claude Palisca. Music and Ideas in the Sixteenth and
Seventeenth Centuries brings together his vast learning on
Renaissance musical thought in a concise and readable volume that
will be of value to scholars and students alike. It is a fitting
culmination to this distinguished scholar's career."--Thomas
Christensen, professor of music, University of Chicago
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