List of music theorists
Music theory has existed since the advent of writing in ancient times. The earliest known practitioners include primarily Greek and some Chinese scholars. A few Indian sages such as Bharata Muni (Natya Shastra) are also credited with important treatises. Though much is lost, substantial treatises on ancient Greek music theory survive, including those by Aristoxenus, Nicomachus, Ptolemy and Porphyry. The influential Yue Jing Classic of Music from China is lost,[1] though a few Ancient Chinese theorists from the Han dynasty and later have surviving contributions, such as Jing Fang and Xun Xu.
Writers of late antiquity—particularly Boethius, Cassiodorus and Isidore of Seville—were crucial in translating and transmitting much thought on music theory from classical antiquity to medieval Europe.[2][3] However, the information relayed to the Post-classical era was minimal and European medieval theorists frequently misinterpreted what little Greek writings had been preserved.[4] Important medieval European theorists include Hucbald, Guido of Arezzo, Johannes Cotto, Franco of Cologne, Philippe de Vitry. Many medieval music manuscripts of Europe were anonymous, and later compilers such as Martin Gerbert and Edmond de Coussemaker assigned names to unknown authors,[5] such as 'Anonymous IV'. Concurrent with medieval Europe, scholars of the emerging Islamic Golden Age often more readily and thoroughly engaged with ancient Greek music treatises.[6] Many Arab and Persian music theorists of this time have surviving works, such as Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani, Safi al-Din al-Urmawi, Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi and Abd al-Qadir Maraghi. Theorists of the Byzantine Empire include George Pachymeres and Manuel Chrysaphes.
By the 15th century, European theorists were readily discussing the qualities of Renaissance music, with theorists such Johannes Tinctoris and Gioseffo Zarlino making important contributions to the study of counterpoint. Zarlino and Nicola Vicentino developed new theories on musical tuning, a topic which Vicentino publicly debated on with theorist Vicente Lusitano. At this time, the quality and quantity of Turkic musical sources increased, due to the rise of the Ottoman Empire.[7] This laid the foundation of a 18th century musical golden age in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, exemplified by composer-theorists such as Kasımpaşalı Osman Effendi, Dimitrie Cantemir and Abdülbaki Nasır Dede.[8] Meanwhile, the Age of Enlightenment and the common practice period in Europe led to substantial changes in the nature of published music theory.[9]
Antiquity
| Name | Lifetime | Nationality | Major writing | Known for | Ref(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Archytas | fl. first half of the 4th century BCE | Greek | Nothing substantial survives; known through the citations of later authors | Naming the harmonic mean; may have been the first author to describe the quadrivium | [10] |
| Aristoxenus | c. 375–360 BCE – died ? | Greek | Elementa harmonica | The oldest surviving substantial work of music theory | [11] |
| Aplypius | fl. 4th century BCE | Greek | Eisagōgē mousikē (Introduction to Music) | Includes the most comprehensive "tabulation of ancient Greek musical notation". Includes commentary on a variety of topics: notes, intervals, scales, genera, tonoi, modulation, and melic composition | [12] |
| Archestratus | fl. early 3rd century BCE | Greek | On auletes? (uncertain attribution) | Describing the pyknon | [13] |
| Ptolemais of Cyrene | Perhaps fl. 250 BCE | Greek | The Pythagorean Principles of Music | Wrote concerning the proper roles of reason and sensory experience in the study of music. Known primarily through a reference by Porphyry; the only known female music theorist of antiquity. | [14] |
| Eratosthenes | c. 276 – c. 196 BCE | Greek | Only fragments survive | Calculation of the tuning of the degrees of the tetrachords | [15] |
| Didymos | fl. 2nd half of 1st century BCE | Greek | Concerning the Difference between the Pythagorean and Aristoxenian Theories of Music; Concerning Pythagorean Philosophy | Chromatic tetrachords. Most of his writing is lost; chiefly known through citations and fragments relied by Porphyry and Ptolemy | [16] |
| Jing Fang | 78–37 BCE | Chinese | Writings included in the Huainanzi compilation | Discovered that 53 perfect fifths was approximate to 31 octaves while creating a musical scale of 60 tones | [17][18] |
| Dionysius the Areopagite | 1st century CE | Roman | Concering the Divine Hymns | The work is now lost, but was purportedly one of the only treatises that discussed the Byzantine rite | [19] |
| Nicomachus of Gerasa | fl. late 1st – early 2nd century CE | Greek | Harmonikon encheiridion (Manual of Harmonics); Theologoumena arithmētikēs (Theology of Arithmetic) | The only significant extant music theory works between Aristoxenus/Euclid and Ptolemy. The Manual of Harmonics first transmits Pythagoras' purported discovery that pitch is dependent on numbers | [20] |
| Ptolemy | after 83 – 161 CE | Greco-Egyptian | Harmonika (Harmonics) | Among the most comprehensive and through music theory works of antiquity | [21] |
| Cleonides | After the 1st century CE | Eisagōgē harmonikē (Introduction to Harmonics) | Introduces Aristoxenus' harmonic system. Influenced Manuel Bryennius considerably | [22] | |
| Theon of Smyrna | fl. early 2nd century | Greek | On Pythagorean Harmony | [23] | |
| Xun Xu | c. 221 – 289 | Chinese | Linked the Heptatonic scale with the Shí-èr-lǜ. Developed a new fingerhole system for the dizi | [24] | |
| Porphyry | c. 232/233 – c. 305 | Greek | Kata Christianōn (Against the Christians); De abstinentia (About Abstinence); Eis ta Harmonika Ptolemaiou hypomnēma | Includes considerable commentary on older works, some of which are not extant only known from his references. He may have been the earliest Western writer to criticize secular music for its purported "sensual attraction"—an opinion that later Church Fathers referenced favorably | [25] |
| Gaudentius | fl. 3rd – 4th century | Greek | Harmonikē eisagōgē (Harmonic Introduction) | Synthesized the music theory of Pythagoras and Aristoxenus. Influenced Cassiodorus considerably | [26] |
| Aristides Quintilianus | fl. late 3rd and early 4th centuries | Greek | Peri mousikēs (On Music) | [27][28] | |
| He Chengtian | 370–447 | Chinese | Treatise on Harmonics | Developed a theory of equal temperament | [29][30] |
| Bacchius | fl. 4th century | Greek | Eisagōgē technēs mousikēs (Introduction to the Art of Music) | [31] | |
| Martianus Capella | fl. early 5th century | De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii (particularly Book 9) | Includes a translation of Aristides Quintilianus's On Music | [32] | |
| Shen Yue | 441–513 | Chinese | Treatise on Harmonic and Celestial Systematics (included in the Songshu) | Includes Xun Xu's developed dizi fingerhole system | [29] |
| Boethius | c. 480 – 524 | Roman | De institutione musica | [33] | |
| Cassiodorus | c. 485 – 585 | Roman | Institutiones Divinarum et Saecularium Litterarum | [34] | |
| Isidore of Seville | circa 560 – 636 | Spanish | Etymologiarum sive Originum libri xx (chapters 15–23 deal with music) | [35] |
7th–14th centuries
| Name | Date | Major writing | Known for | Ref(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi | 718 – 786 | ʿArūḍ and its application to music | [36][37] | |
| Yunus al-Katib al-Mughanni | fl. late-8th century | Kitab al-Nagham | [38] | |
| Al-Kindi | 801–873 | Al-risāla al-kubrā fī al-ta’līf (Grand treatise on composition) | [39] | |
| Ibn Khordadbeh | 820–912 | Kitāb al-lahw wa-l-malahi | Description of music in pre-Islamic Persia | [40] |
| Aurelian of Réôme | fl. 840–850 | Musica disciplina | Earliest extant treatise on medieval music | [41][42] [43] |
| Johannes Scottus Eriugena | c. 810 – c. 877 | De divisione naturae and De divisione naturae | Mentions organum (scholars doubt this refers to polyphony) | [44] |
| Hucbald | c. 850 – 930 | De musica (formerly known as De harmonica institutione) | "One of the foremost expositors of music theory in the Carolingian era" | [41][45] |
| Anonymous 8 | 9th century | Musica enchiriadis | earliest extant discussion of polyphonic singing and the first chant melodies preserved in a precise pitch notation | [46] |
| Abu Ahmad Monajjem | 855 or 866 – 912 | Resāla fi’l-mūsīqī | Oldest extant Middle Eastern treatise with a detailed description of modal structure | [47] |
| Regino of Prüm | c. 842 – 915 | De synodalibus causis and Epistola de armonica institutione | "Correct the intonations and confirm the modes of the antiphons and responsories of the Mass and Office" | [48][49] |
| Al-Farabi | 872–950 | Kitāb al-mūsīqī al-kabīr (Great book on music) | "most imposing of all Arabic works on music" | [50] |
| Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani | 897–967 | Kitab al-Aghani (Book of Songs) | ||
| Notker Labeo | 950–1022 | |||
| Anonymous, of the Brethren of Purity | second half of the 10th century | Rasa’il Ikhwan al-Safa, Epistle 5: On Music | [51][52] | |
| Guido of Arezzo | c. 991 – after 1033 | Micrologus | ||
| Avicenna (Ibn-Sīnā) | c. 980 – 1037 | Danishnama-i 'Alai | ||
| Berno of Reichenau | d. 1048 | Musica Seu Prologus In Tonarium | He compiled a tonarius, dealing with the organisation of the church chants into ‘tones’ – eight modes of the Gregorian chant. | |
| Ibn Zaylah | d. 1048 | al-Kāfī fī al-mūsīqī | [53][54] | |
| Hermannus Contractus | 1013–1054 | |||
| Michael Psellos | 1018 – after 1078 | Eis tēn psychogonian tou Platōnos Prolambanomena eis tēn rhythmikēn epistēmēn On the Resounding Hall at Nicomedia |
[55] | |
| Aribo Scholasticus | fl. 1068–1078 | De musica | also known as simply "Aribo." Created a "caprea," a diagram showing modal tetrachords superimposed on the gamut. | [56] |
| Wilhelm of Hirsau | died 1091 | De musica | [57] | |
| Frutolf of Michelsberg | mid-11th century – 1103 | Brevarium | compiler of treatises, in particular Boethius and Berno of Reichenau. | [58] |
| Theogerus of Metz | c. 1050 – c. 1120 | Musica | [59] | |
| Johannes Cotto | fl. 1100 | De musica | ||
| Avempace | c. 1085 – 1138 | Risālah fī l-alḥān | [60] | |
| Hermann of Carinthia | fl. 1138–43 | De essentiis | translating Arabic treatises into Latin | [61] |
| Guido of Eu | fl. 1130s | supposed author of Regule de arte musica | earliest Cistercian treatise on music theory. | [62] |
| Theinred of Dover (Theinredus Doverensis) | 12th century | De legitimis ordinibus pentachordorum et tetrachordorum | discussion of chromatically altered tones in plainsong | [63] |
| Ficker Anonymous | early 13th century | Ars organi | [64] | |
| Franco of Cologne | fl. mid to late 13th century | Ars cantus mensurabilis | Franconian Notation | [65] |
| Safi al-Din al-Urmawi | born c. 1216 AD Baghdad, died in 1294 AD | Kitab al-Adwār and Risālah al-Sharafiyyah fi 'l-nisab al-taʾlifiyyah (The Sharafiyyah Letter on the Art of Composing) | [66] | |
| Bartholomeus Anglicus | before 1203 – 1272 | |||
| George Pachymeres | 1242 – c. 1310 | Syntagma tōn tessarōn mathēmatōn, arithmētikēs, mousikēs, geōmetrias kai astronomias | [67] | |
| Egidius de Zamora | fl. 1260–1280 | Ars musica | noted for inclusion of Spanish instruments and description of organ used in church. | [68] |
| Amerus | fl. 1271 | Practica artis musice | [69] | |
| Hieronymus of Moravia | died after 1272 | Tractatus de musica | [70] | |
| Anonymous IV | fl. 1270 – 1280 | De mensuris et discantu | ||
| Magister Lambertus | fl. c. 1270 | Tractatus de musica | [71] | |
| Engelbert of Admont | c. 1250 – 1331 | De musica tractatus | ||
| Jacob of Liège | c. 1260 – after 1330 | |||
| Johannes de Garlandia | fl. 1270–1320 | De Mensurabili Musica | Explains the rhythmic modes, particularly that which the Notre-Dame school engaged in | |
| Petrus de Cruce | late 13th century | |||
| Johannes Balox | late 13th century | Gaudent brevitate moderni | [72] | |
| Petrus de Picardia | mid-13th century | Ars motettorum compilata breviter | [73] | |
| Elias Salomo | late 13th century | Scientia artis musice | [74] | |
| Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi | c. 1236 - 1311 | Dorrat al-tāj fi ḡorrat al-dabbāj | [75] | |
| Philippe de Vitry | c. 1291 – 1361 | |||
| Hugo Spechtshart | c. 1285 – 1359/60 | Flores musicae omnis cantus Gregoriani | ||
| Johannes Vetulus de Anagnia | 1st half of 14th century] | Liber de musica | [76] | |
| Petrus frater dictus Palma ociosa | fl. early 14th century | Compendium de discantu mensurabili | [77] | |
| Johannes de Grocheio | fl. 1300 | Ars musicae | ||
| Manuel Bryennius | 14th century | Harmonika | [78] | |
| Walter Odington | died 1330 | |||
| Johannes de Muris | c. 1290 – after 1344 | |||
| Marchetto da Padova | fl. 1274–1319 | |||
| Robert de Handlo | early 14th century | [79] | ||
| John Hanboys | fl. c. 1370 | Summa | [80] | |
| John of Tewkesbury | fl. 1351–1392 | Quatuor principalia musice | [81] | |
| al-Āmulī | died 1352 | Nafā’is al-funūn | His Nafā’is al-funūn on the quadrivium contains a chapter on music theory; it is one of the few surviving Persian sources dated in the time between the works of Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi and Abd al-Qadir Maraghi | [82] |
| Ibn Kurr | died 1357 | Ġāyat al-matḷūb fī 'ilm al-adwār wa-'l-dụrūb (The Enticing Roads to Rhythms and Modes) | Examines musical discourse of 14th-century Cario | [83] |
| Johannes Boen | died 1367 | Ars [musicae], Musica | [84] | |
| Johannes Ciconia | 1360–1412 | |||
| Philippus de Caserta | late 14th century | |||
| Gabriel Hieromonachos | fl. first half of the 15 century | May be author of a Discourse on the Signs of Chant | [85] | |
| Manuel Chrysaphes | fl. 1440–1463 | On the Theory of the Art of Chanting and On Certain Erroneous Views That Some Hold about It | [86][27] |
15th and 16th centuries
| Name | Lifetime | Major writing | Known for | Ref(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fernand Estevan | fl. 1410 | Reglas de canto plano è de contrapunto, è de canto de organo | [87] | |
| Kırşehrî Yusuf | fl. 1411 | Kitâbü’l Edvâr | [7] | |
| Bedr-i Dilşad | fl. 1427 | Muradnâme | ||
| Prosdocimus de Beldemandis | d. 1428 | [7] | ||
| Abd al-Qadir Maraghi | d. 1435 | Makâsıd al-Alhân | Corpus attributed to him was a seminal work of the 17th century renaissance of Ottoman music.[8] | [7][88] |
| Giorgio Anselmi | c. 1386 – 1440/43 | [89] | ||
| Ugolino of Forlì or Ugolino of Orvieto | c. 1380 – 1452 | |||
| Fatḥallāh al-Shirwānī | d. approximately 1453 | Majalla fī 'l-mūsīqī [Codex on music] | [90] | |
| Antonius de Leno | early 15th century | Regulae de contrapunto (title created by Coussemaker from incomplete treatise) | [91] | |
| John Hothby | c. 1410 – 1487 | |||
| Johannes Gallicus | c. 1415 – 1473 | Praefatio libelli musicalis de ritu canendi vetustissimo et novo | First 15th century theorist to describe attributes of Renaissance music.[92] | [92] |
| Ladikli Mehmet Chelebi | fl. 1483 | Zeynü’l-elḥân fî ʿilmi’t-teʾlîf ve’l-evzân | [93] | |
| Johannes Tinctoris | c. 1435 – 1511 | |||
| Bartolomeus Ramis de Pareia | c. 1440 – after 1491 | |||
| Muhammad al-Ladiqi | d. 1494 | Risâla al-fathiyya fi’l-al-müsïqï | [94] | |
| Ioannis Plousiadinos | d. approximately 1500 | His system of parallage | [95][96] | |
| Adam von Fulda | 1445–1505 | |||
| Johannes Cochlaeus | 1449–1552 | |||
| Hızır bin Abdullah | fl. mid-15th century | Kitābü’l-edvār | His work on fragmentary modal structures (terkîb), in which he defined a total of 240 modes.[97] | [88] |
| Hadji Büke | fl. mid-15th century | Mukaddimetü’l Usûl | Noted for his pioneering work on compound (mürekkep) makams. | [98] |
| Hace Abdülaziz | fl. mid-15th century | Nekavetü’l Edvâr | [7] | |
| Franchinus Gaffurius | 1451–1522 | Practica musicae, 1496 | ||
| Nicolò Burzio | 1453–1528 | Musices opusculum | [99] | |
| Giovanni Spataro | 1458–1541 | Tractato di musica di Gioanni Spataro musico bolognese nel quale si tracta de la perfectione da la sesqualtera producta in la musica mensurata exercitate | [100] | |
| Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples (alias Jacobus Faber Stapulensis) | c. 1460 – 1536 | Musica libris demonstrata quattuor, Paris 1496 | ||
| Domingo Marcos Durán | c. 1460 – 1529 | |||
| Erasmus Horicius | c. 1465 – early 16th century | Musica and Tractatus de sphera | [101] | |
| Michael Keinspeck | c. 1470 – mid-16th century | Lilium musicae planae | [102] | |
| Lodovico Fogliano | c. 1475 – 1542 | Musica theorica (Venice, 1529) | [103] | |
| Johannes Aventinus | 1477–1534 | |||
| Pietro Aaron | c. 1480 – c. 1550 | |||
| Nicolaus Wollick | c. 1480 – 1541 | Enchiridion musices (1512) | [104] | |
| Sebastian z Felsztyna | c. 1480/1490? – after 1543 | |||
| Melchior Schanppecher | born c. 1480 | Opus aurem musicae (Cologne, 1501) | [105] | |
| John Tucke | c. 1482 – after 1539 | His notebook (British Library, Additional Ms. 10336) | [106] | |
| Martin Agricola | 1486–1556 | [107] | ||
| Heinrich Glarean | 1488–1563 | |||
| Georg Rhau | 1488–1548 | |||
| Giovanni Del Lago | c. 1490 – 1544 | Correspondence with Giovanni Spataro and Pietro Aaron[108] | [108] | |
| Giovanni Maria Lanfranco | c. 1490 – 1545 | Scintille di musica | Author of the earliest treatise on music theory in Italian[109] | [109] |
| Andreas Ornithoparchus | born c. 1490 | Musicae activae micrologus (Leipzig, 1517) | [110] | |
| Bonaventura da Brescia | late 15th century | Breviloquium musicale (Brescia, 1497) (later editions known as Regula musicae planae) | [111] | |
| Gulielmus Monachus | late 15th century | De preceptis artis musicae | [112] | |
| Guillermo de Podio | late 15th century | Ars musicorum (Valencia, 1495); In enchiridion de principiis musicae | [113] | |
| Kadızade Mehmet Tirevî | late 15th century | Risâle-i Mûsîkî | [7] | |
| Silvestro Ganassi dal Fontego | c. 1492 – mid-16th century | Opera intitulata Fontegara (Venice, 1535) Regola Rubertina (Venice, 1542) Lettione Seconda (Venice, 1543) | ||
| Stephanus Vanneo | 1493–1535 | "Recanetum de musica aurea" | ||
| Henricus Grammateus (alias Heinrich Schreiber) | 1495–1525/6 | |||
| Sebald Heyden | 1499–1561 | De arte canendi (Nuremberg, 1532–40) | ||
| Heinrich Faber | before 1500–1552 | Compendiolum musicae (1548) De musica poetica (1548) Ad musicam practicam introductio (1550) | ||
| Simon de Quercu | early 16th century | Opusculum musices (Vienna, 1509) | [114] | |
| Vicente Lusitano | 16th century | Introdutione facilissima et novissima de canto fermo (Rome, 1553) | ||
| Seydî | fl. early 16th century | Al-Matlah | [88] | |
| Auctor Lampadius | c. 1500 – 1559 | Compendium musices, tam figurati quam plani cantus, ad formam dialogi (Berne, 1537, 5/1554) | [115] | |
| Adrianus Petit Coclico | c. 1500 – 1562 | |||
| Juan Bermudo | c. 1510 – 1565 | Libro primero de la Declaración de instrumentos musicales (1549) Comiença el Arte Tripharia(1550) | [116] | |
| Nikolaus Listenius | born c. 1510 | Rudimenta musicae (1533) | [117] | |
| Ghiselin Danckerts | c. 1510 – after 1565 | |||
| Diego Ortiz | c. 1510 – 1570 | |||
| Nicola Vicentino | 1511–1576 | |||
| Francisco de Salinas | 1513–1590 | |||
| Gioseffo Zarlino | 1517–1590 | |||
| Girolamo Mei | 1519–1594 | |||
| Aiguino da Brescia | 1520–1581 | Illuminata de tutti i tuoni di canto fermo (Venice, 1562) | [118] | |
| Vincenzo Galilei | late 1520–1591 | |||
| Hermann Finck | 1527–1558 | |||
| Francisco de Montanos | c. 1528 – after 1592 | Arte de música (1592) | [119] | |
| Ercole Bottrigari | 1531–1612 | |||
| Pietro Pontio | 1532–1595 | |||
| Gallus Dressler | 1533 – c. 1580/89 | |||
| Orazio Tigrini | c. 1535 – 1591 | Il compendio della musica nel quale si tratta dell’arte del contrapunto | [120] | |
| Giovanni Maria Artusi | c. 1540 – 1613 | |||
| Giulio Caccini | c. 1545 – 1618 | |||
| Cyriakus Schneegass | 1546–1597 | |||
| Philibert Jambe de Fer | fl. 1548–1564 | |||
| Riccardo Rognoni | c. 1550 – 1620 | Passaggi per potersi esercitare nel diminuire, Venice 1592 | ||
| Elway Bevin | c. 1554 – 1638 | |||
| Girolamo Diruta | c. 1554 – after 1610 | |||
| Lodovico Zacconi | 1555–1627 | |||
| Sethus Calvisius | 1556–1615 | |||
| Johannes Nucius | c. 1556 – 1620 | |||
| Thomas Morley | c. 1557 – 1602 | |||
| Adam Gumpelzhaimer | 1559–1625 | |||
| Giovanni Luca Conforti | c. 1560 – 1608 | Breve et facile maniera d’essercitarsi..., Rome 1593 | ||
| Charles Butler | 1560–1647 | The Principles of Musik (1636) | ||
| Giovanni Bassano | 1560/61–1617 | Ricercate, passaggi et cadentie, Venice 1585 | ||
| Pietro Cerone | 1561–1625 | |||
| Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck | 1562–1621 | |||
| Giovanni Camillo Maffei | fl 1562–73 | Delle lettere del Signor Gio. Camillo Maffei da Solofra, libri due ..., Naples 1562 | ||
| William Bathe | 1564–1614 | |||
| Joachim Burmeister | 1564–1629 | |||
| Johannes Christoph Demantius | 1567–1643 | |||
| Thomas Campion | 1567–1620 | |||
| Adriano Banchieri | 1568–1634 | |||
| Girolamo Dalla Casa | before 1568 – 1601 | Il vero modo di diminuir con tutte le sorti di stromenti di fiato, & corda, & di voce humana Venice: Angelo Gardano 1584 | ||
| Michael Praetorius | c. 1569/73 – 1621 | |||
| Tomás de Santa María | died 1570 | Arte de tañer fantasía | ||
| Eucharius Hoffmann | died 1588 | |||
| Rudolf Schlick | flourished 1588 | Exercitatio, qua musices origo prima, cultus antiquissimus, dignitas maxima et emolumenta … breviter ac dilucide exponuntur, Speyer, 1588 | [121] | |
| Giovanni Battista Bovicelli | fl 1592–94 | Regole, passaggi di musica, madrigali et motetti passeggiati, Venice, 1594 | ||
| Francesco Rognoni Taeggio | second half of the 16th century – after 1626 | Selva de varii passaggi, Milan, 1620 | ||
17th century
| Name | Lifetime | Major writing | Known for |
|---|---|---|---|
| John Coprario | c. 1570 – 1626 | ||
| Johannes Kepler[122] | 1571–1630 | Harmonices Mundi | |
| Giulio Cesare Monteverdi | 1573–1630/31 | ||
| Robert Fludd | 1574–1637 | ||
| Salomon de Caus | c. 1576 – 1626 | ||
| Gerhard Johann Vossius | 1577–1649 | ||
| Agostino Agazzari | 1578–1640 | Del sonare sopra il basso, 1607 | |
| Henricus Baryphonus | 1581–1655 | ||
| Severo Bonini | 1582–1663 | ||
| Thomas Ravenscroft | c. 1582 – 1635 | ||
| Johannes Lippius | 1585–1612 | ||
| Johann Heinrich Alsted | 1588–1638 | ||
| Johann Andreas Herbst | 1588–1666 | ||
| Marin Mersenne | 1588–1648 | ||
| Heinrich Grimm | 1593–1637 | ||
| Giovanni Battista Doni | 1595–1647 | ||
| René Descartes | 1596–1650 | ||
| Galeazzo Sabbatini | 1597–1662 | ||
| Joan Albert Ban | 1597–1644 | ||
| Johann Crüger | 1598–1662 | ||
| Antoine de Cousu | c. 1600 – 1658 | ||
| Marco Scacchi | c. 1600 – 1681/87 | ||
| Athanasius Kircher | 1601–1680 | ||
| Christopher Simpson | c. 1605 – 1669 | ||
| Wojciech Bobowski[123][124] | c. 1610–1675 | Mecmûa-i Sâz ü Söz | Introduction of staff notation to Ottoman music, which would overtake abjad notation in the 19th century. |
| Hans Mikkelsen Ravn | c. 1610 – 1663 | ||
| Wolfgang Ebner | 1612–1665 | ||
| Otto Gibelius | 1612–1682 | ||
| Thomas Mace | 1612/3 – c. 1706 | ||
| Lorenzo Penna | 1613–1693 | ||
| William Holder | 1616–1696 | ||
| John Wallis | 1616–1703 | ||
| Isaac Vossius | 1618–1689 | ||
| Matthew Locke | 1621–1677 | ||
| John Playford | 1623–1686 | ||
| Kasımpaşalı Osman Effendi[8] | fl. c. 1623 | ||
| Andrés Lorente | 1624–1703 | ||
| René Ouvrard | 1624–1694 | ||
| Bénigne de Bacilly | c. 1625 – 1690 | ||
| Giovanni Andrea Bontempi | c. 1624 – 1705 | ||
| Christoph Bernhard | 1628–1692 | ||
| Christiaan Huygens | 1629–1695 | ||
| Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers | c. 1632 – 1714 | ||
| Nikolay Diletsky | c. 1630 – after 1680 | ||
| Angelo Berardi | c. 1636 – 1694 | ||
| Daniel Speer | 1636–1707 | ||
| Francis North | 1637–1685 | ||
| Wolfgang Caspar Printz | 1641–1717 | ||
| Giovanni Maria Bononcini | 1642–1678 | ||
| Jean Rousseau | 1644–1700 | ||
| Andreas Werckmeister | 1645–1706 | ||
| Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz | 1646–1716 | ||
| Thomas Salmon | 1648–1706 | ||
| Çengi Yusuf Dede[125] | fl. c. 1650 | ||
| Johann Georg Ahle | 1651–1706 | ||
| Joseph Sauveur | 1653–1716 | ||
| Georg Muffat | 1653–1704 | ||
| Nâyî Osman Dede[126] | fl. c. 1680–1729 | Rabt-ı Tâbirât-ı Mûsikî | |
| Pier Francesco Tosi | c. 1653 – 1732 | ||
| Pablo Nassarre | c. 1654 – 1730 | ||
| Johann Baptist Samber | 1654–1717 | ||
| Johann Beer | 1655–1700 | ||
| Sébastien de Brossard | 1655–1730 | ||
| Étienne Loulié | c. 1655 – 1707 | ||
| Nicola Matteis | fl. 1670–c. 1698 | ||
| Friedrich Erhard Niedt | 1674–1717 | ||
| Charles Masson | fl. 1680–1700 | ||
| De La Voye-Mignot | died 1684 | ||
18th century
19th century
20th century
| Name | Lifetime | Major writing | Known for | Ref(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stephan Krehl | 1864–1924 | Kontrapunkt (1908) | Attempted to synthesize harmony and counterpoint | [134] |
| André Gedalge | 1868–1926 | Traité de la fugue (1901) | Fugue theory | [135][136] |
| Alfred Lorenz | 1868–1939 | Das Geheimnis der Form bei Richard Wagner (1924–1933) | Musical analysis, particularly of Richard Wagner's works | [137][138] |
| Heinrich Schenker | 1868–1935 | Free Composition, Counterpoint, Harmony | Founding schenkerian analysis | [139][140] |
| August Otto Halm | 1869–1929 | Die Symphonie Anton Bruckners (1914) | ||
| Suphi Ezgi | 1869–1962 | Nazarî ve Amelî Türk Müzikisi | [128] | |
| André Pirro | 1869–1943 | |||
| Rudolf Louis | 1870–1949 | |||
| Rauf Yekta | 1871–1935 | La musique turque | [128] | |
| Charles Herbert Kitson | 1874–1944 | |||
| Hugo Leichtentritt | 1874–1951 | |||
| Arnold Schoenberg | 1874–1951 | Style and Idea | ||
| Donald Tovey | 1875–1940 | |||
| Julián Carrillo | 1875–1965 | The Sonido 13 theory | [141] | |
| Arnold Schering | 1877–1941 | |||
| Boleslav Leopoldovich Yavorsky | 1877–1942 | |||
| Zdeněk Nejedlý | 1878–1962 | |||
| Otakar Zich | 1879–1934 | |||
| Hüseyin Sadeddin Arel | 1880–1955 | Türk Musikisi Kimindir? | The nationalist school of Ottoman classical music | [142] |
| Marion Bauer | 1882–1955 | |||
| Mario de Andrade | 1883–1945 | |||
| Boris Vladimirovich Asafiev | 1884–1949 | |||
| Hermann Keller | 1885–1967 | The Well-Tempered Clavier by Johann Sebastian Bach | ||
| Rudolph Reti | 1885–1957 | |||
| Vladimír Helfert | 1886–1945 | |||
| Ernst Kurth | 1886–1946 | |||
| Charles Seeger | 1886–1979 | formulation of dissonant counterpoint | [143] | |
| Ernst Ferand | 1887–1972 | |||
| Adele T. Katz | 1887–1979 | |||
| Ludvík Kundera | 1891–1971 | |||
| Knud Jeppesen | 1892–1974 | |||
| Iurii Nikolaevich Tiulin | 1893-1978 | [144] | ||
| Nicolas Slonimsky | 1894–1995 | Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns (1947) | ||
| Paul Hindemith | 1895–1963 | |||
| Joseph Schillinger | 1895–1943 | |||
| Howard Hanson | 1896–1981 | |||
| Victor Zuckerkandl | 1896–1965 | |||
| Roger Sessions | 1896–1985 | |||
| Erwin Ratz | 1898–1973 | |||
| Felix Salzer | 1904–1986 | |||
| Alain Daniélou | 1907–1994 | |||
| Ernst Oster | 1908–1977 | |||
| Zofia Lissa | 1908–1980 | |||
| George Perle | 1915–2009 | |||
| Miroslav Venhoda | 1915–1987 | |||
| Milton Babbitt | 1916–2011 | |||
| Edward T. Cone | 1917–2004 | |||
| Alfred Mann | 1917–2006 | |||
| Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn | 1917-1965 | Taṣwīr al-Alḥān al-‘Arabiyyah [The transposition of Arab melodies] |
Division of the octave into 24 quarter tones, transposition of the Arabic maqam | [145] |
| Iannis Xenakis | 1922–2001 | |||
| George Russell | 1923–2009 | |||
| Jaroslav Volek | 1923–1989 | |||
| Joseph Kerman | 1924–2014 | |||
| Ernő Lendvai | 1925–1993 | |||
| Allen Forte | 1926–2014 | |||
| Eric Sams | 1926–2004 | |||
| William Ennis Thomson | 1927–2019 | |||
| Harold Powers | 1928–2007 | |||
| Tomislav Volek | born 1931 | |||
| Carl Schachter | born 1932 | Harmony and Voice Leading (1979; with Edward Aldwell) | Schenkerian analysis | |
| David Lewin | 1933–2003 | |||
| Benjamin Boretz | born 1934 | Language as a Music: Six Marginal Pretexts for Composition (1981) | [146] | |
| Edward Aldwell | 1938–2006 | Harmony and Voice Leading (1979; with Carl Schachter) | [147] | |
| Edward Laufer | 1938–2014 | Schenkerian analysis | [148] | |
| Stefan Kostka | born 1939 | Tonal Harmony (1984) | ||
| Fred Lerdahl | born 1943 | A Generative Theory Of Tonal Music (1983; with Ray Jackendoff) | Generative theory of tonal music | [149][150] |
| Maury Yeston | born 1945 | Readings in Schenker Analysis (1975); The Stratification of Musical Rhythm (1976) | Rhythmic stratification and schenkerian analysis | [151] |
| James Hepokoski | born 1946 | Elements of Sonata Theory (2006; with Warren Darcy) | Sonata theory | [152] |
| William Caplin | born 1948 | Classical Form (1998) | Analysis of classical period music | [153] |
| Laurence Dreyfus | born 1952 | Analysis of the music of Bach | ||
| Richard Cohn | born 1955 | Audacious Euphony (2012) | Rhythm and atonal pitch-class theories | [154] |
| Victor Kofi Agawu | born 1956 | Playing with signs (1991); African Rhythm, A Northern Ewe Perspective (1995) | Musical semiotics and musical analysis | [155] |
| Miller Puckette | born 1959 | The Theory and Technique of Electronic Music (2007) | Max (software), Pure Data | |
| David Carson Berry | born 1968 | A Topical Guide to Schenkerian Literature | Schenkerian analysis | [156] |
| Dmitri Tymoczko | born 1969 | A Geometry of Music (2010) | Proposed framework for considering tonality | [157] |
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