This book explores the changes of style and knowledge about music around 1700 in eleven essays from musicology, literary studies, philosophy and legal history. The key to the change is a new understanding of the rules for composing, making music and listening. Music is no longer steered by fundamental natural musical laws, but rather orients itself, even normatively, toward trends, taste and situational circumstances.

Autorentext

Rainer Bayreuther, Universität Halle (Saale).