The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory is the first comprehensive history of Western music theory to be published in the English language. A collaborative project by leading music theorists and historians, the volume traces the rich panorama of music-theoretical thought from the Ancient Greeks to the present day. Richly enhanced with illustrations, graphics, examples and cross-citations, as well as being thoroughly indexed and supplemented by comprehensive bibliographies, this book will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars alike. The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory is the first comprehensive history of Western music theory to be published in the English language. A collaborative project by leading music theorists and historians, the volume traces the rich panorama of music-theoretical thought from the Ancient Greeks to the present day. Introduction Thomas Christensen Part I. Disciplining Music Theory: 1. Mapping the terrain Leslie Blasius 2. Musica practica: music theory as pedagogy Robert W. Wason 3. Epistemologies of music theory Nicholas Cook Part II. Speculative Traditions: 4. Greek music theory Thomas J. Mathiesen 5. The transmission of ancient music theory into the Middle Ages Calvin Bower 6. Medieval canonics Jan Herlinger 7. Tuning and temperament Rudolf Rasch 8. The role of harmonics in the scientific revolution Penelope Gouk 9. From acoustics to tonpsychologie Burdette Green and David Butler 10. Music theory and mathematics Catherine Nolan Part III. Regulative Traditions: 11. Notes, scales, and modes in Carolingian thought David Cohen 12. Renaissance modal theory: theoretical, compositional and editorial perspectives Cristle Collins Judd 13. Tonal organization in seventeenth-century music theory Gregory Barnett 14. Dualist tonal space and transformation in the nineteenth century Henry Klumpenhouwer 15. Organum, diaphonia, discantus, contrapunctus in the Middle Ages Sarah Fuller 16. Counterpoint pedagogy in the Renaissance Peter Schubert 17. Performance theory Albert Cohen 18. Steps to Parnassus: contrapuntal theory in 1725: precursors and successors Ian Bent 19. Twelve-tone theory John Covach 20. The evolution of rhythmic notation Anna Maria Busse Berger 21. Theories of musical rhythm in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries William Caplin 22. Rhythm in twentieth-century theory Justin London 23. Tonality Brian Hyer 24. Rameau and eighteenth-century harmonic theory Joel Lester 25. Nineteenth-century harmonic theory: the Austro-German legacy David W. Bernstein 26. Heinrich Schenker William Drabkin Part IV. Descriptive Traditions: 27. Music and rhetoric Patrick McCreless 28. Form Scott Burnham 29. Thematic and motivic analysis Jonathan Dunsby 30. Energetics Lee Rothfarb 31. The psychology of music Robert Gjerdingen.