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John Birchensha: Writings on Music

Author : Benjamin Wardhaugh
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351561588
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book John Birchensha: Writings on Music written by Benjamin Wardhaugh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Birchensha (c.1605-?1681) is chiefly remembered for the impression that his theories about music made on the mathematicians, natural philosophers and virtuosi of the Royal Society in the 1660s and 1670s, and for inventing a system that he claimed would enable even those without practical experience of music to learn to compose in a short time by means of 'a few easy, certain, and perfect Rules'-his most famous composition pupil being Samuel Pepys in 1662. His great aim was to publish a treatise on music in its philosophical, mathematical and practical aspects (which would have included a definitive summary of his rules of composition), entitled Syntagma music Subscriptions for this book were invited in 1672-3, and it was due to be published by March 1675; but it never appeared, and no final manuscript of it survives. Consequently knowledge about his work has hitherto remained extremely sketchy. Recent research, however, has brought to light a number of manuscripts which allow us at last to form a more complete view of Birchensha's ideas. Almost none of this material has been previously published. The new items include an autograph treatise of c.1664 ('A Compendious Discourse of the Principles of the Practicall & Mathematicall Partes of Musick') which Birchensha presented to the natural philosopher Robert Boyle, and which covers concisely much of the ground that he intended to cover in Syntagma musica detailed synopsis for Syntagma musichich he prepared for a meeting of the Royal Society in February 1676; and an autograph notebook (now in Brussels) containing his six rules of composition with music examples, presumably written for a pupil. Bringing all this material together in a single volume will allow scholars to see how Birchensha's rules and theories developed over a period of fifteen years, and to gain at least a flavour of the lost Syntagma music

Music, Experiment and Mathematics in England, 1653-1705

Author : Benjamin Wardhaugh
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351557084
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Music, Experiment and Mathematics in England, 1653-1705 written by Benjamin Wardhaugh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How, in 1705, was Thomas Salmon, a parson from Bedfordshire, able to persuade the Royal Society that a musical performance could constitute a scientific experiment? Or that the judgement of a musical audience could provide evidence for a mathematically precise theory of musical tuning? This book presents answers to these questions. It constitutes a general history of quantitative music theory in the late seventeenth century as well as a detailed study of one part of that history: namely the applications of mathematical and mechanical methods of understanding to music that were produced in England between 1653 and 1705, beginning with the responses to Descartes's 1650 Compendium musicand ending with the Philosophical Transactions' account of the appearance of Thomas Salmon at the Royal Society in 1705. The book is organized around four key questions. Do musical pitches form a small set or a continuous spectrum? Is there a single faculty of hearing which can account for musical sensation, or is more than one faculty at work? What is the role of harmony in the mechanical world, and where can its effects be found? And what is the relationship between musical theory and musical practice? These are questions which are raised and discussed in the sources themselves, and they have wide significance for early modern theories of knowledge and sensation more generally, as well as providing a fascinating side light onto the world of the scientific revolution.

John Wallis: Writings on Music

Author : David Cram
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351561480
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book John Wallis: Writings on Music written by David Cram and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Wallis (1616-1703), was one of the foremost British mathematicians of the seventeenth century, and is also remembered for his important writings on grammar and logic. An interest in music theory led him to produce translations into Latin of three ancient Greek texts - those of Ptolemy, Porphyry and Bryennius - and involved him in discussions with Henry Oldenburg, the Secretary of the Royal Society, Thomas Salmon and other individuals as his ideas developed. The texts presented in this volume cover the relationship of ancient and modern tuning theory, the building of organs, the phenomena of resonance, and other musical topics.

Thomas Salmon: An essay to the advancement of musick and the ensuing controversy, 1672-3

Author : Benjamin Wardhaugh
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9780754668442
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (684 download)

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Book Synopsis Thomas Salmon: An essay to the advancement of musick and the ensuing controversy, 1672-3 by : Benjamin Wardhaugh

Download or read book Thomas Salmon: An essay to the advancement of musick and the ensuing controversy, 1672-3 written by Benjamin Wardhaugh and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Salmon (1647-1706) is remembered today for the fury with which Matthew Locke greeted his first foray into musical writing, the Essay to the Advancement of Musick (1672), and the near-farcical level to which the subsequent pamphlet dispute quickly descended. Beneath the unedifying invective employed by Salmon, Locke and their supporters however, serious and novel statements were being made about what constituted musical knowledge and what was the proper way to acquire it. This volume is the first published scholarly edition of Salmon's writings on notation, previously available only in microfilm and online facsimiles.

"Music, Experiment and Mathematics in England, 1653?705 "

Author : Benjamin Wardhaugh
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351557076
Total Pages : 214 pages
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Download or read book "Music, Experiment and Mathematics in England, 1653?705 " written by Benjamin Wardhaugh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How, in 1705, was Thomas Salmon, a parson from Bedfordshire, able to persuade the Royal Society that a musical performance could constitute a scientific experiment? Or that the judgement of a musical audience could provide evidence for a mathematically precise theory of musical tuning? This book presents answers to these questions. It constitutes a general history of quantitative music theory in the late seventeenth century as well as a detailed study of one part of that history: namely the applications of mathematical and mechanical methods of understanding to music that were produced in England between 1653 and 1705, beginning with the responses to Descartes's 1650 Compendium music?and ending with the Philosophical Transactions' account of the appearance of Thomas Salmon at the Royal Society in 1705. The book is organized around four key questions. Do musical pitches form a small set or a continuous spectrum? Is there a single faculty of hearing which can account for musical sensation, or is more than one faculty at work? What is the role of harmony in the mechanical world, and where can its effects be found? And what is the relationship between musical theory and musical practice? These are questions which are raised and discussed in the sources themselves, and they have wide significance for early modern theories of knowledge and sensation more generally, as well as providing a fascinating side light onto the world of the scientific revolution.

Giovanni Gabrieli and His Contemporaries

Author : Richard Charteris
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000951464
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Giovanni Gabrieli and His Contemporaries written by Richard Charteris and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than three decades Richard Charteris has researched European music, sources and collections, focusing particularly on late Renaissance England, Germany and Italy. This group of essays, many concerning previously unknown or unexplored works and materials, covers the 16th and early to mid 17th centuries. The studies involve variously 'new' compositions, music manuscripts and editions, and documents that relate to figures such as the Italians Giovanni Gabrieli, Claudio Monteverdi and Alfonso Ferrabosco the Elder, the Germans Hans Leo Hassler and Adam Gumpelzhaimer, as well as the Englishmen John Coprario, John Dowland, John Jenkins, Henry Lawes, William Lawes, Peter Philips, and the French composer Marin Marais. In addition, Charteris elucidates contemporary performance practice in relation to works by Gabrieli, investigates printed music editions that originated from the Church of St Anna, Augsburg, and evaluates materials in collections, inlcuding ones in Berlin, Hamburg, Kraków, London, Regensburg and Warsaw.

A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800

Author : Philip H. Highfill
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809305186
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800 written by Philip H. Highfill and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Companion

Author : Samuel Pepys
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520020979
Total Pages : 654 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Companion written by Samuel Pepys and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1970 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Samuel Pepys' FRS, MP, JP, (pron.: /pi?ps/;[1] 23 February 1633? 26 May 1703) was an English naval administrator and Member of Parliament who is now most famous for the diary he kept for a decade while still a relatively young man. Although Pepys had no maritime experience, he rose by patronage, hard work and his talent for administration, to be the Chief Secretary to the Admiralty under both King Charles II and subsequently King James II. His influence and reforms at the Admiralty were important in the early professionalisation of the Royal Navy.[2] The detailed private diary Pepys kept from 1660 until 1669 was first published in the 19th century, and is one of the most important primary sources for the English Restoration period. It provides a combination of personal revelation and eyewitness accounts of great events, such as the Great Plague of London, the Second Dutch War and the Great Fire of London."--Wikipedia

The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Vol. 10

Author : Samuel Pepys
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520227158
Total Pages : 652 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Vol. 10 written by Samuel Pepys and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001-03-29 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: London: Bell & Hyman Limited, 1983.

Music Education in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

Author : Susan Forscher Weiss
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253004551
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Music Education in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance written by Susan Forscher Weiss and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2010-07-16 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What were the methods and educational philosophies of music teachers in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance? What did students study? What were the motivations of teacher and student? Contributors to this volume address these topics and other -- including gender, social status, and the role of the Church -- to better understand the identities of music teachers and students from 650 to 1650 in Western Europe. This volume provides an expansive view of the beginnings of music pedagogy, and shows how the act of learning was embedded in the broader context of the early Western art music tradition.

Musical Theory in the Renaissance

Author : CristleCollins Judd
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351556843
Total Pages : 635 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Musical Theory in the Renaissance written by CristleCollins Judd and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 635 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of essays draws together recent work on historical music theory of the Renaissance. The collection spans the major themes addressed by Renaissance writers on music and highlights the differing approaches to this body of work by modern scholars, including: historical and theoretical perspectives; consideration of the broader cultural context for writing about music in the Renaissance; and the dissemination of such work. Selected from a variety of sources ranging from journals, monographs and specialist edited volumes, to critical editions, translations and facsimiles, these previously published articles reflect a broad chronological and geographical span, and consider Renaissance sources that range from the overtly pedagogical to the highly speculative. Taken together, this collection enables consideration of key essays side by side aided by the editor‘s introductory essay which highlights ongoing debates and offers a general framework for interpreting past and future directions in the study of historical music theory from the Renaissance.

The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Music

Author : Tim Carter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521792738
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Music written by Tim Carter and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-12-22 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2005, this title provides extensive knowledge on seventeenth-century music.

The Correspondence of John Wallis (1616-1703)

Author : Philip Beeley
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191524131
Total Pages : 720 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book The Correspondence of John Wallis (1616-1703) written by Philip Beeley and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2005-01-13 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second volume of a six volume compendium on the correspondences of John Wallis (1616-1703). Wallis was Savilian Professor of Geometry at Oxford from 1649 until his death, and was a founding member of the Royal Society and a central figure in the scientific and intellectual history of England. Along with his role as decipherer on the Parlimentary side during the Civil War, he prepared the ground for the discovery of infinitesimal calculus by Newton and Leibniz and played a decisive role in modernization of English mathematics. This volume provides fascinating insight into the life of Wallis through his correspondences with intellectual and political figures of the latter part of the 17th century.

Catalogue of Manuscript Music in the British Museum

Author : British Museum. Department of Manuscripts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Catalogue of Manuscript Music in the British Museum written by British Museum. Department of Manuscripts and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Catalogue

Author : Wells, Edgar H. & Co
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Catalogue written by Wells, Edgar H. & Co and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 1208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

John Pell (1611-1685) and His Correspondence with Sir Charles Cavendish

Author : Noel Malcolm
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0198564848
Total Pages : 663 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book John Pell (1611-1685) and His Correspondence with Sir Charles Cavendish written by Noel Malcolm and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2005 with total page 663 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description

The Music Treatises of Thomas Ravenscroft

Author : RossW. Duffin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351542141
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book The Music Treatises of Thomas Ravenscroft written by RossW. Duffin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Ravenscroft is best-known as a composer of rounds owing to his three published collections: Pammelia and Deuteromelia (both 1609), and Melismata (1611), in addition to his harmonizations of the Whole Booke of Psalmes (1621) and his original sacred works. A theorist as well as a composer and editor, Ravenscroft wrote two treatises on music theory: the well-known A Briefe Discourse (1614), and 'A Treatise of Practicall Musicke' (c.1607), which remains in manuscript. This is the first book to bring together both theoretical works by this important Jacobean musician and to provide critical studies and transcriptions of these treatises. A Briefe Discourse furthermore introduces an anthology of music by Ravenscroft, John Bennet, and Ravenscroft's mentor, Edward Pearce, illustrating some of the precepts in the treatise. The critical discussion provided by Duffin will help explain Ravenscroft's complicated consideration of mensuration, in particular.