Musical representations, subjects, and objects: the construction of musical thought in Zarlino, Descartes, Rameau, and Weber

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Acknowledgments Note on Translations Introduction 1. Zarlino: Instituting Knowledge in the Time of Correspondences 2. The Representation of Order: Perception and the Early Modern Subject in Descartes's Compendium musicae 3. The Complicity of the Imagination: Representation, Subject, and System in Rameau 4. Gottfried Weber and Mozart's K. 465: The Contents and Discontents of the Listening Subject Epilogue Glossary of Greek Terms Notes Bibliography Index