The work of music theory : selected essays / Thomas Christensen.

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Part 1, Reflections on the History of Music Theory: Music theory and its histories (1993) ; Music theory in Clio’s mirror (2002) ; Fragile texts, hidden theory (2011) -- Part 2, Thorough-Bass and Music Theory: Fundamenta Partiturae: thorough bass and foundations of 18th-century composition pedagogy (2008) ; The Spanish Baroque guitar and 17th-century triadic theory (1992) ; The Règle de l’Octave in thorough-bass theory and practice (1992) ; Throughbass as music theory -- Part 3, The Seventeenth Century: Harmonia Temporis: Calvisius and musical chronology (2008) ; The sound world of Father Mersenne (2012) -- Part 4 The Eighteenth Century: Johann Nicolaus Bach as music theorist (1996) ; Bach among the theorists (1998) ; Sensus, Ratio, and Phthongos: Mattheson’s theory of tone perception (1994) ; Nichelmann contra C.Ph.E. Bach: harmonic theory and musical politics at the court of Frederick the Great (1990) ; Diderot, Rameau, and resonating strings: new evidence of an early collaboration (1994) ; Bemetzrieder’s dream: Diderot and the pathology of tonal sensibility in the Leçons de clavecin (2001)