Rameau and Musical Thought in the Enlightenment

Abstract

List of illustrations Foreword by Ian Bent Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Rameau and the Enlightenment 2. Rameau as music theorist 3. Precursors of harmonic theory 4. The generative fundamental 5. The fundamental bass 6. The corps sonore 7. Mode and modulation 8. Rameau and the philosophes 9. D'Alembert 10. The final years Appendices Select bibliography Index of subjects Index of proper names.