A General History of the Science and Practice of Music Vol 1 book by John A Hawkins

John A Hawkins

Published by Dover, 1963

About this Item

Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Some tanning wear and marking due to age. Vol 1 only. Year 1963. Hardcover. English. See images for condition. About the book >.>.> In 1776, after sixteen years of painstaking research, Sir John Hawkins published a detailed history of music that has long been accorded the status of a genuine classic of musicology. Beginning with earliest re-corded evidence of music and continuing on up through Hawkins's own time, his enormous work covers such matters as the origins and development of musical theory, harmonic and contrapuntal prosses, poly-phony, musical notation, orchestration, in-struments, forms, and similar material. It deals with all the musical forms up to his time: plainsong, ballad, motet, canon, chant, madrigal, fugue, sonata, concerto, symphony, cantata, oratorio, opera. It takes into account the particular contributions of various peoples, notably the Greeks, Romans, Hebrews and Egyptians (in the earlier periods) and the Italians, French, Germans, and British in the later periods. We now know more about certain areas of musicology than was available in Hawkins's time, of course, but his work sti.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A General History of the Science and Practice of Music Vol 1 book by John A Hawkins
• Publisher: Dover
• Publication Date: 1963
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good
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