There are at least three varieties of musical knowledge; technical, aesthetic, and scientific. By the 17th century, the Mediaeval preponderance of the scientific approach to music was subordinated to the aesthetic. During the 16th century, the scientific approach to musical knowledge was still present but began to shift toward aesthetic understandings. Becker traces the trajectory of this change and explores its reasons.
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