Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; Foreword by Ian Bent; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Rameau and the Enlightenment; 2. Rameau as music theorist; 3. Precursors of harmonic theory; 4. The generative fundamental; 5. The fundamental bass; 6. The corps sonore; 7. Mode and modulation; 8. Rameau and the philosophes; 9. D'Alembert; 10. The final years; Appendices; Select bibliography; Index of subjects; Index of proper names.

Klappentext
This is the first intellectual biography of the French composer and theorist Jean-Philippe Rameau, the 'Newton of the Arts'.