Pietro Gianotti's "Le Guide du compositeur": A reworking of Rameau's "L'Art de la basse fondamentale". An annotated translation and critical edition of part I.
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Title
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Pietro Gianotti's "Le Guide du compositeur": A reworking of Rameau's "L'Art de la basse fondamentale". An annotated translation and critical edition of part I.
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Identifier
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AAI9807961
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identifier
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9807961
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Creator
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Longo, Lauren M.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Joel Lester
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Date
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1997
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Music | Education, Music | Education, History of | Literature, Romance
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Abstract
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This dissertation provides an English translation of the first section of Pietro Gianotti's Le Guide du compositeur published in Paris, 1759. Gianotti provided a publication that sought to teach any musical beginner how to compose. Though Gianotti's Guide was by no means the first method to address the growing hunger for detailed knowledge on all matters musical in the middle of the eighteenth century, his contribution is perhaps far more significant in its association with a much more famous personage: Jean Philippe Rameau. In the preface of his work, Gianotti stated that his Guide was the result of studies with Rameau. Though many authors claimed to have studied with the master, Gianotti's was no empty boast.;In an article in Music Theory Spectrum (1987), Thomas Christensen reported on manuscript drafts discovered in the D'Alembert archive of the Institut de France. Christensen not only proved these drafts to be Rameau's; he surmised that this manuscript, "L'Art de la basse fondamentale" (MS 2474), served as the textbook draft for a six-month-long composition course that Rameau offered between 1737 and 1744. In a later "Communication" to Music Theory Spectrum (1990), he revealed Pietro Gianotti's Le Guide du compositeur (1759) to be the published reworking of Rameau's "L' Art de la basse fondamentale.".;The presence of two extant drafts of material for Part I of Rameau's "L'Art de la basse fondamentale," a section which teaches the fundamental bass method without introducing dissonance, affords the unique opportunity to glimpse Rameau's changing pedagogical presentation of ideas. This study focuses on Part I exclusively with a view to comparing in detail Gianotti's printed version of Rameau's ideas with Rameau's original thoughts as revealed in the two drafts. Thus, this dissertation provides a critical edition that not only transmits Gianotti's work in English translation, but also cites the corresponding passages of Rameau's two drafts in English translation alongside Gianotti's in a three-column format. Critical assessment of the presentation of ideas from each author's point of view follows each of Gianotti's 15 chapters in editorial commentaries. Volume II of the critical edition also furnishes a full transcription of each manuscript draft of Rameau's first section of "L'Art.".
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
