Cognate Music Theories

Ignacio Prats-Arolas is on the faculty of musicology at the Conservatorio Superior de Música “Joaquín Rodrigo” in Valencia, Spain and teaches courses on music at the Florida State University Valencia Study Center. He holds a PhD in musicology from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

1. Musicology beyond historicism: Epistemological implications and scope of John Walter Hill’s cognate music theory Ignacio Prats-Arolas Part I: Framing concepts 2. Cognate music theory John Walter Hill 3. Insiders and outsiders: Revisiting Indigenous musical thought Bruno Nettl Part II: Syntax, form, and genre 4. Heinrich Christoph Koch's description of the Andantino e cantabile in Joseph Haydn's Symphony No. 42 as a response to recent sonata theories Gregory Hellenbrand 5. Artisanal knowledge as a cognate music theory: Reading a partimento Robert Gjerdingen 6. Intersections of biography, analysis, and performance: Beethoven at Heiligenstadt in 1802 William Kinderman 7. A cognate theory of generic classification in the Airs sérieux et à boire of Sébastien de Brossard Kenneth Smith Part III: Rhetoric and emotions 8. Ripa’s Iconologia as a source for musical rhetoric of the seventeenth century Barbara Russano Hanning 9. The language of emotions from Descartes to Metastasio Álvaro Torrente and José María Domínguez Part IV: Timbre, color, and temperament 10. "Quegli strumenti, che erano più atti a far proporzionata accompagnatura al balletto a cavallo”: Envisioning a cognate theory of instrumental timbre in early modern Florence Kelley Harness 11. “Énergie des modes”:Tuning and temperament in seventeenth-century France Charlotte Mattax Moersch 12. "Il cembalo de’ colori, e la musica degli occhi”: Francesco Algarotti and a cognate concept of music in the age of the Enlightenment Bella Brover-Lubovsky Part V: Historical sources and cultural hermeneutics 13. Insider and outsider views in early modern correspondence involving patrons and musicians Dinko Fabris 14. Anthropology, music, and theater in a seventeenth-century year Robert L. Kendrick 15. Song about song, music about life: Herder on music's transcendent moment Philip V. Bohlman. Index