Roger North's the Musicall Grammarian 1728

by Roger North , Edited by Mary Chan , Jamie Kassler

• ISBN13: 9780521024914
• ISBN10: 0521024919
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-04-20
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Roger North's The Musicall Grammarian 1728 is a treatise on musical eloquence in all its branches. Of its five parts, I and II, on the orthoepy, orthography and syntax of music, constitute a grammar; III and IV, on the arts of invention and communication, form a rhetoric; and V, on etymology, consists of a history. Two substantial chapters of commentary introduce the text, which is edited here for the first time in its entirety: Jamie Kassler places his treatise within the broader context not only of North's musical and non-musical writings but also their relation to the intellectual ferment of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and Mary Chan describes physical and textual aspects of the treatise as evidence for North's processes of thinking about musical thinking.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations

Foreword

Biographical note

Introduction I Jamie C. Kassler

Preface

1. Introduction

2. Roger North's science of music

3. Roger North's philosophy of music conclusion

Introduction II Mary Chan

Preface

1. Physical aspects of the manuscript

2. Textual aspects of the manuscript

3. Method of composition and matters of style and usage

Conclusion

Editorial guidelines

The Musicall Grammarian 1728

Glossary

References and bibliography

Index.