A Treatise of Musick, containing the Principles of Composition, Wherein the several Parts thereof are fully explained, and made useful both to the Professors and Students of that Science, By Mr. Rameau, Principal Composer to his Most Christian Majesty, and to the Opera at Paris. Translated into English from the Original in the French Language.

Published by Printed by Robert Brown For the Proprietor, And Sold by John Walsh, London, 1752

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Size: Small 4to. [viii (title, contents)], 176, [ii (errata and example)] pp. Contemporary polished half leather (foot of backstrip worn away) with marbled boards (paper a little torn). A little thumbed; front end-paper with contemporary annotations. From the collection of Christopher Hogwood (1941-2014). A translation of the third part of the Traité de l'harmonie. Small 4to. [viii (title, contents)], 176, [ii (errata and example)] pp.

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Title
A Treatise of Musick, containing the Principles of Composition, Wherein the several Parts thereof are fully explained, and made useful both to the Professors and Students of that Science, By Mr. Rameau, Principal Composer to his Most Christian Majesty, and to the Opera at Paris. Translated into English from the Original in the French Language.
Author
RAMEAU, Jean-Philippe (1683-1764)
Publisher
Printed by Robert Brown For the Proprietor, And Sold by John Walsh, London
Publication year
1752
Binding
Hardcover
Edition
RISM B/VI/2 p.685. Gregory p.224.

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