Music Theory in Seventeenth-Century England Explicit Needs EAN: 9781285349039

EAN: 9781285349039

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Music Theory in Seventeenth-Century England Explicit Needs EAN: 9781285349039The fundamental changes that resulted in the development of the Baroque style around the turn of the seventeenth century also had a profound effect on music theory. As musicians began to adopt new approaches to composition, authors gradually became aware that the theories on which they relied, some of which dated back to medieval times, were largely obsolete. Thus, over the course of the seventeenth century, there occurred a complete transformation in