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Article: Music Theory in Seventeenth-Century England. (Book Reviews: Diverse Topics).(Book Review)
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Music Theory in Seventeenth-Century England. By Rebecca Herissone. (Oxford Monographs on Music.) Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. [xv, 316 p. ISBN 0-19-816700-8. $80.] Music examples, illustrations, bibliography, index.
Rebecca Herissone's Music Theory in Seventeenth-Century England draws together many disparate sources of information on the topic in a manner previously unavailable in English-language publications. (The closest comparison is Barry Cooper's "Englische Musiktheorie im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert," in Wilhelm Seidel and Barry Cooper, Entstehung nationaler Traditionen: Frankreich-England [Geschichte der Musiktheorie, 9; Darmstadt: ...