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Article: Music and Ideas in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries.(Book review)
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Music and Ideas in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. By Claude V. Palisca, ed. by Thomas J. Mathiesen. (Studies in the History of Music Theory and Literature.) Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. [x, 302 p. ISBN 0-252-03156-3. $35.] Illustrations, bibliographical references, index.
The intellectual legacy of a musicologist begins with writing a dissertation, an exercise that demands both a demonstration of familiarity with the broad structure of a research area and, often, detailed technical forays into identifying and solving problems posed by that structure. When scholars also become teachers, as Claude Palisca was for five years at the ...