Charles-Simon Catel's Treatise on Harmony and the Disciplining of Harmony at the Early Paris Conservatory traces the formation of the discipline of harmony at the early Paris Conservatory, focusing on the 1801 treatise of Charles-Simon Catel. By examining the forces that shaped Catel's text, Michael J. Masci reconstitutes the contours of the dynamic disciplinary network that determined the content and scope of the study of harmony in Paris, expanding our understanding of practical harmony traditions.

Michael J. Masciis associate professor of Music Theory at SUNY Geneseo.

Contents

Note on Figured-Bass Symbols

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Harmony as Discipline

I. Institutional Power and Disciplinary Pretexts

Chapter 1. The Institutional Authorization of Catels Harmonic Theory and the Reconciliation of Fundamental Bass Theory with Figured Bass Practice

Chapter 2. The Institutional Sources of Catels (Contested) Authority

II. TheCours dHarmonie as Coordination of Disciplinary Technologies

Chapter 3. Disciplinary Networks: Sources and Structures of theCours dHarmonie

Chapter 4. Reconstructing the Theory, Pedagogy, and Method of the EarlyCours dHarmonie

Chapter 5. Harmonys Boundaries and the Internalization of Disciplinary Norms

III. The Transmission and Midcentury Revision of Disciplinary (and Generic) Structures

Chapter 6. Tonalité, Modulation, and Alteration: Catel Reception at Midcentury

Chapter 7. Tonal Redaction as Generic Convention in theTraité Complet Théorique et Pratique

Conclusion

Appendix A. Common Marches

Appendix B. Common Broderies

Appendix C. Common Cadences

Bibliography

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