Moreno, Jairo. 2004. Musical Representations, Subjects, and Objects: The Construction of Musical Thought in Zarlino, Descartes, Rameau, and Weber. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
“Jairo Moreno adapts the methodologies and nomenclature of Foucault's ‘archaeology of knowledge’ and applies it through individual case studies to the theoretical writings of Zarlino, Descartes, Rameau, and Weber. The conclusion summarizes the conditions—musical, philosophical, and historical—that ‘make a certain form of thought about music necessary and possible at the time it emerges.’”
—Robert S. Hatten, editor, Musical Meaning and Interpretation series
Reviews:
Alexander Rehding. 2003. Journal of Music Theory 47 (2): 363-369.
“[…] a book that has long been waiting to be written” (Rehding, 364).
“Moreno shows us that music theorists are much more than teachers or practitioners: they propose, promote, and perpetuate modes of thinking and being. It is almost coincidental that these epistemologies happen to take hold in the musical realm. The strength of Moreno's book is that he reads central music-theoretical texts afresh, supplements them with less well-known documents in the service of a thorough intellectual contextualization” (Rehding, 368).
Thomas Christensen. 2007. Music and Letters 88 (2): 340-345.
“We have in Moreno’s book much to think about and to be thankful for. In vivid and learned prose, he tells a profoundly important story that amounts to no less than the history of Gehörbildung in Western culture […] I know of few other examples of such musicological literature that deal so competently—and even elegantly—with such a difficult yet critically important topic of musical epistemology. And if the story we learn is of the conflicted emergence of the general musical imagination in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, we also find in this book the emergence of a more recent moment of musical imagination that equally deserves our notice and celebration: the acute mind and lively pen of Jairo Moreno” (Christensen, 344-345).
Karl Braunschweig. 2008. Music Theory Spectrum 30 (1): 169-180.
“Moreno begins to reveal to us how involved music may have been in the historical construction of the subject and, he also suggests, in the emergence of modernity […] His book becomes, therefore, ambitious in its intellectual coverage and bold in its conclusions” (Braunschweig, 169).
de Buzon, Frédéric. 2008. Archives de Philosophie 1 (Tome 71): 139-190.