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Paperback:
9780199381029 | 2 reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, November 1, 2016), cover price $55.00
Hardcover:
9781107021563 | Cambridge Univ Pr, April 8, 2013, cover price $99.99
Product Description: Around the middle of the eighteenth century the leading figures of the French Enlightenment engaged in a philosophical debate about the nature of music. This book traces the development of the ideas discussed, focusing on three different events that occurred roughly simultaneously: Rameau's formulation of the principle of the fundamental bass; the writing of the Encyclopédie, edited by Diderot and d'Alembert, with articles on music by Rousseau; and the "Querelle des Bouffons," over Italian comic opera and French tragic opera...read more
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9780198162810 | Oxford Univ Pr, April 8, 1993, cover price $81.50 | About this edition: Around the middle of the eighteenth century the leading figures of the French Enlightenment engaged in a philosophical debate about the nature of music.
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