Roger North's The Musicall Grammarian 1728 (Cambridge Studies in Music) (Volume 0) - Softcover

North, Roger

 
9780521024914: Roger North's The Musicall Grammarian 1728 (Cambridge Studies in Music) (Volume 0)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0521024919 ISBN 13: 9780521024914
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2006

Synopsis

Roger North's The Musicall Grammarian 1728, first published in 1990, is a treatise on musical eloquence in all its branches. Of its five parts, I and II, on the orthoepy, orthography and syntax of music, constitute a grammar; III and IV, on the arts of invention and communication, form a rhetoric; and V, on etymology, consists of a history. Two substantial chapters of commentary introduce the text, which is edited here for the first time in its entirety: Jamie Kassler places his treatise within the broader context not only of North's musical and non-musical writings but also their relation to the intellectual ferment of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and Mary Chan describes physical and textual aspects of the treatise as evidence for North's processes of thinking about musical thinking.

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Book Description

Roger North's The Musicall Grammarian 1728 is a 1990 treatise on musical eloquence in all its branches. Of its five parts, I and II, on the orthoepy, orthography and syntax of music, constitute a grammar; III and IV, on the arts of invention and communication, form a rhetoric; and V, on etymology, consists of a history.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2006
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0521024919
ISBN 13 
9780521024914
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
324
Editor
Chan Mary, Kassler Jamie