| Contents |
Potter, musician, merchant, scribe : the many lives of John Holden (1729-72) -- An eighteenth-century theory of musical cognition? John Holden's Essay towards a Rational System of Music (1770) -- "Our nurses tunes" : John Holden and Scottish psalmody -- To "fill up, completely, the whole capacity of the mind" : listening with attention in late eighteenth-century Scotland -- Rhythm as a universal "science of man" : Walter Young's "Essay on Rythmical Measures" (1790) -- What's in a game? Rediscovering the music theory of Anne Young. |
| Abstract |
"This book includes more developed versions of work presented in article form in the Journal of Music Theory, Music Theory Spectrum, and SMT-V; I am greatly indebted to the editors and staff of these journals, in particular to Poundie Burstein, Laura Emmery, Noah Kahrs, Julie Pedneault-Deslauriers, and Peter H. Smith, as well as to Roger Grant and the journals' anonymous peer reviewers, for many helpful suggestions. I would also like to thank Duke University Press for granting me permission to reproduce material that directly overlaps with the 2018 article in this book. Chapters of this book were presented as talks at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics and at Yale, Columbia, Glasgow, and Cornell universities; I am grateful to all audience members for the responses offered during these events, and in particular to Annelies Andries, Eamonn Bell, Joe Dubiel, Dan Harrison, Andrew Hicks, Alexandra Kieffer, Marius Kozak, Gundula Kreuzer, Ellen Lockhart, Nathan Martin, Nicholas Mathew, Roger Moseley, Roger Parker, Judith Peraino, Jessica Peritz, Ben Piekut, Ian Quinn, Annette Richards, Ellen Rosand, Braxton Shelley, Ben Steege, David Yearsley, and Anna Zayaruznaya for their insightful questions"-- Provided by publisher. |
