New System of Musical Theory
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The New Theoretical System of Music, published in 1726, is the second treatise on musical theory written by the composer Jean-Philippe Rameau,.[1][2]
Rameau followed this work with his Treatise on harmony reduced to its natural principles in 1722, and presented it as an introduction to the latter work.
Earlier, he had learned of the work of Joseph Sauveur on the harmonic resonance of the sound body, which corroborates the principles identified in his[whose?] first book[clarification needed], on the level of physics and auditory perception. The perception of harmonics (or consonances) during the emission of the fundamental sound had also been noted previously by the Jesuit scholar Marin Mersenne[3][clarification needed]
While the entire theoretical approach of Mersenne's treatise was based exclusively on mathematical considerations, Rameau evoked in his New System the physical phenomenon of harmonic sounds, i.e., "consubstantial" with the fundamental sound. Their inevitable presence is based on Nature and justifies, for the author, the notion of "perfect harmony".[4][clarification needed][citation needed]
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- ^ Elie, Jean. "Marin Mersenne et sa contribution à la théorie de la musique : consonances et dissonances". escholarship.mcgill.ca. Retrieved 2022-11-12.
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