1st Edition

Cognate Music Theories The Past and the Other in Musicology (Essays in Honor of John Walter Hill)

Edited By Ignacio Prats-Arolas Copyright 2024
304 Pages 79 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

304 Pages 79 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

304 Pages 79 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This volume explores the possibilities of cognate music theory, a concept introduced by musicologist John Walter Hill to describe culturally and historically situated music theory. Cognate music theories offer a new way of thinking about music theory, music history, and the relationship between insider and outsider perspectives when researchers mediate between their own historical and cultural... Read more

1. Musicology beyond historicism: epistemological implications and scope of John Walter Hill’s cognate music theory Ignacio Prats-Arolas

Part I: Framing concepts

2. Cognate music theory John Walter Hill

3. Insiders and outsiders: revisiting Indigenous musical thought Bruno Nettl

Part II: Syntax, form, and genre

4. Heinrich Christoph Koch's description of the Andantino e cantabile in Joseph Haydn's Symphony No. 42 as a response to recent sonata theories Gregory Hellenbrand

5. Artisanal knowledge as a cognate music theory: reading a partimento Robert Gjerdingen

6. Intersections of biography, analysis, and performance: Beethoven at Heiligenstadt in 1802 William Kinderman

7. A cognate theory of generic classification in the Airs sérieux et à boire of Sébastien de Brossard Kenneth Owen Smith

Part III: Rhetoric and emotions

8. Ripa’s Iconologia as a source for musical rhetoric of the seventeenth century Barbara Russano Hanning

9. The language of emotions from Descartes to Metastasio Álvaro Torrente and José María Domínguez

Part IV: Timbre, color, and temperament

10. "Quegli strumenti, che erano più atti a far proporzionata accompagnatura al balletto a cavallo”: envisioning  a cognate theory of instrumental timbre in early modern Florence Kelley Harness

11.  “Énergie des modes”: tuning and temperament  in seventeenth-century France Charlotte Mattax Moersch

12. "Il cembalo de’ colori, e la musica degli occhi”: Francesco Algarotti and a cognate concept of music in the age of the Enlightenment  Bella Brover-Lubovsky

Part V: Historical sources and cultural hermeneutics

13. Insider and outsider views in early modern correspondence involving patrons and musicians Dinko Fabris

14. Anthropology, music, and theater in a seventeenth-century year Robert L. Kendrick

15. Song about song, music about life: Herder on music's transcendent moment Philip V. Bohlman.

Index

 

Biography

Ignacio Prats-Arolas is on the faculty of musicology at the Conservatorio Superior de Música “Joaquín Rodrigo” in Valencia, Spain and teaches courses on music at the Florida State University Valencia Study Center. He holds a PhD in musicology from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.