Publications of the Center for the History of Music Theory and Literature
Established in 1998 and published by the University of Nebraska Press until 2004, the Publications of the Center for the History of Music Theory and Literature (PCHMTL) was a series of individual monographs, catalogues, and bibliographies pertaining to the Center's broad areas of interest and its specific projects. Its tradition is now continued by Studies in the History of Music Theory and Literature, published by the University of Illinois Press.
Three volumes of PCHMTL were published.
vol. 1:
Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum: Canon of Data Files. Edited by Thomas J. Mathiesen. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999. liv,274 p. $60.00 (ISBN: 0-8032-8233-8 [paperback]) (click here to order)
vol. 2:
Mathiesen, Thomas J. Apollo's Lyre: Greek Music and Music Theory in Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999. xv,806 p. (ISBN: 0-8032-3079-6) OP
Kinkeldey Award (American Musicological Society), 2000; Berry Award (Society for Music Theory), 2000; ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award, 2000.
vol. 3:
Music in the Mirror: Reflections on the History of Music Theory and Literature for the 21st Century. Edited by Andreas Giger and Thomas J. Mathiesen. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. x,331 p. (ISBN: 0-8032-3219-5) OP
Lewis Rowell and the editors, ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award, 2003.
This collection of articles, first presented at a public conference held 11-14 May 2000 at Indiana University in Bloomington, presents the work of thirteen distinguished scholars exploring the concept of music, music theory, and music literature as mirror images of one another--whether real or distorted--, reflecting on various subjects, offering new approaches, and articulating new visions for future research. The contributors, whose work spans historical periods from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century, include Wye J. Allanbrook ("Theorizing the Comic Surface"), Margaret Bent ("Sense and Rhetoric in Late-Medieval Polyphony"), Calvin Bower ("'Adhuc ex parte et in enigmate cernimus ...' Reflections on the Closing Chapters of Musica enchiriadis"), Tim Carter ("The Composer as Theorist? Genus and Genre in Monteverdi's Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda"), Thomas Christensen ("Music Theory in Clio's Mirror"), Philip Gossett ("Editorial Theory, Musical Editions, Performance: 19th-Century Faultlines from a 21st-Century Perspective"), Don Harrán ("The Hebrew Exemplum as a Force of Renewal in 18th-Century Musical Thought: The Case of Benedetto Marcello and His Collection of Psalms"), John W. Hill ("Cognate Music Theory"), Robert P. Morgan ("Schenker and the Twentieth Century: A Modernist Perspective"), David Neumeyer ("Film Theory and Music Theory: On the Intersection of Two Traditions"), Anthony Newcomb ("Marenzio and the 'Nuova aria e grata all'orecchie'"), Lee Rothfarb ("Music and Mirrors: Misconceptions and Misrepresentations"), and Lewis Rowell ("New Temporal Horizons and the Theory of Music")
In addition to the series of monographis, catalogues, and bibliographies, PCHMTL also included as a sub-series Greek and Latin Music Theory (GLMT), ten volumes of which were published between 1984 and 1994.
Individual volumes of PCHMTL or GLMT are available through your bookstore or by direct order from the publisher. For further information, please contact:
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