A system of the science of music and practical composition; incidentally comprising what is usually understood by the term thorough bass.

LOGIER, Johann Bernhard.

Published by London: published by J. Green, publisher of all Mr. Logier's works, manufacturer of the patent Chiroplast or hand-director, &c. &c.; this work is also published in the French and German languages: at Paris, by Maurice Schlesinger, and Berlin, by W. Logier, 1827, 1827

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4to, (vii), xii-xix, (i), 323 pp. (complete), half-title, engraved portrait, musical notation in the text, original buff printed boards. First edition in English. Logier was descended from a French family who fled to Germany during the reign of Louis XIV. He settled in England in 1790 and in about 1814 began manufacturing various inventions for teaching music. The work is comprised in three distinct branches: "the art of playing on the pianoforte (in the elementary part of which is employed the chiroplast); -- harmony and composition; -- and the peculiar method by which the instruction is conveyed to pupils." Until publication of his System, Logier had kept his secrets largely confined to those who paid handsomely for private instruction. The German translation is said to have been the textbook used by Richard Wagner, but Kassler thinks it is more likely to have been Logier's Thorough bass. Aside from some negligible abrasions and trivial wear to the corners, this is in remarkably fine and fresh original state. Kassler, Science of music in Britain, pp. 714-20.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A system of the science of music and practical composition; incidentally comprising what is usually understood by the term thorough bass.
• Publisher: London: published by J. Green, publisher of all Mr. Logier's works, manufacturer of the patent Chiroplast or hand-director, &c. &c.; this work is also published in the French and German languages: at Paris, by Maurice Schlesinger, and Berlin, by W. Logier, 1827
• Publication Date: 1827
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition