Topics are musical signs developed and employed primarily during the long eighteenth century. Their significance relies on associations that are clearly recognizable to the listener with different genres, styles and types of music making. Topic theory, which is used to explain conventional subjects of musical composition in this period, is grounded in eighteenthcentury music theory, aesthetics, and criticism, while drawing also from music cognition and semiotics. The concept of topics was introduced into by Leonard Ratner in the 1980s to account for crossreferences between eighteenthcentury styles and genres. As the invention of a twentiethcentury academic, topic theory as a field is comparatively new, and The Oxford Handbook of Topic Theory provides a muchneeded reconstruction of the fields aesthetic underpinnings.

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