Thomas Salmon: A proposal to perform musick and related writings, 1685-1706

Thomas Salmon: A proposal to perform musick and related writings, 1685-1706
Author: Benjamin Wardhaugh
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2013
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780754668459

This is the second volume in a two-part set on the writings of Thomas Salmon. Salmon (1647-1706) is remembered today for proposing a radical reform of musical notation (these writings are the subject of Volume I). Later in his life Salmon devoted his attention to an exploration of the possible reform of musical pitch and raised questions about the meaning and the source of musical knowledge similar to those he raised in his work on notation. Benjamin Wardhaugh presents the first published scholarly edition of Salmon's writings on pitch, previously only available mostly in manuscript.

Thomas Salmon: Writings on Music

Thomas Salmon: Writings on Music
Author: Benjamin Wardhaugh
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2017-07-05
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1351539205

This is the second volume in a two-part set on the writings of Thomas Salmon. 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. Salmon proposed a radical reform of musical notation, involving a new set of clefs which he claimed, and Locke denied, would make learning and performing music much easier (these writings are the subject of Volume I). Later in his life Salmon devoted his attention to an exploration of the possible reform of musical pitch. He made or renewed contact with instrument-makers and performers in London, with the mathematician John Wallis, with Isaac Newton and with the Royal Society of London through its Secretary Hans Sloane. A series of manuscript treatises and a published Proposal to Perform Musick, in Perfect and Mathematical Proportions (1688) paved the way for an appearance by Salmon at the Royal Society in 1705, when he provided a demonstration performance by professional musicians using instruments specially modified to his designs. This created an explicit overlap between the spaces of musical performance and of experimental performance, as well as raising questions about the meaning and the source of musical knowledge similar to those raised in his work on notation. Benjamin Wardhaugh presents the first published scholarly edition of Salmon's writings on pitch, previously only available mostly in manuscript.

The Music Treatises of Thomas Ravenscroft

The Music Treatises of Thomas Ravenscroft
Author: Ross W. Duffin
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2017-07-05
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1351542141

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.

John Wallis: Writings on Music

John Wallis: Writings on Music
Author: David Cram
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2017-07-05
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1351561480

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: A proposal to perform musick and related writings, 1685-1706

Thomas Salmon: A proposal to perform musick and related writings, 1685-1706
Author: Thomas Salmon
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780754668459

This is the second volume in a two-part set on the writings of Thomas Salmon. Salmon (1647-1706) is remembered today for proposing a radical reform of musical notation (these writings are the subject of Volume I). Later in his life Salmon devoted his attention to an exploration of the possible reform of musical pitch and raised questions about the meaning and the source of musical knowledge similar to those he raised in his work on notation. Benjamin Wardhaugh presents the first published scholarly edition of Salmon's writings on pitch, previously only available mostly in manuscript.

Thomas Salmon: Writings on Music

Thomas Salmon: Writings on Music
Author: Benjamin Wardhaugh
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013-08-12
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780754668459

This is the second volume in a two-part set on the writings of Thomas Salmon. Salmon (1647-1706) is remembered today for proposing a radical reform of musical notation (these writings are the subject of Volume I). Later in his life Salmon devoted his attention to an exploration of the possible reform of musical pitch and raised questions about the meaning and the source of musical knowledge similar to those he raised in his work on notation. Benjamin Wardhaugh presents the first published scholarly edition of Salmon's writings on pitch, previously only available mostly in manuscript.

Early English Books, 1641-1700

Early English Books, 1641-1700
Author: University Microfilms International
Publisher: Ann Arbor, Mich. : U.M.I.
Total Pages: 954
Release: 1990
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9780835721028

General Catalogue of Printed Books

General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher:
Total Pages: 496
Release: 1964
Genre: English imprints
ISBN: