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Article: Music Theory in Seventeenth-Century England. .(Book Review)
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- September 22, 2002
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Rebecca Herissone. Music Theory in Seventeenth-Century England. (Oxford Monographs in Music.) New York: Oxford University Press. 2000. Pp. xvi, 316. $74.00. ISBN 0-19-816700-8.
From their beginnings as a 1996 dissertation, "The Theory and Practice of Composition in the English Restoration Period," the author's research materials were expanded and revised to become this present comprehensive and detailed investigation of music theory from the 1590s to the late l720s. As Rebecca Herissone observes in her Preface, "surprisingly little attention has been paid by scholars to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English music theory, despite the fact that it was ...