Reveals the brilliant musical and pedagogical thinking of the famed eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Neapolitan composer and teacher of royal students.

This volume reflects a multidisciplinary approach, with the accent on the interplay between music performance and music theory. Thomas Christensen, in his contr

At the height of the Enlightenment, four conservatories in Naples stood at the center of European composition. Maestros taught their students to compose with un

In recent years, scholars and musicians have become increasingly interested in the revival of musical improvisation as it was known in the Renaissance and Baroq

This collection brings together an anthology of articles by Thomas Christensen, one of the leading historians of music theory active today. Published over the s