This study explores evolving ideas of musical form from a historical perspective and sheds light on current conceptualizations of music. The author examines the

This thought-provoking book initiates a dialogue among scholars in rhetoric and hermeneutics in many areas of the humanities. Twenty leading thinkers explore th

First published in 2005, this title provides extensive knowledge on seventeenth-century music.

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