Melody - the soul of music: an essay towards the improvement of the musical art: with an appendix, containing account of an invention.
Molleson, Alexander.
Glasgow : printed in the Courier Office,
1798.
Anonymous: by Alexander Molleson.
The invention referred to in the title is the author's 'octave violin', the added strings being thicker than the four open strings, tuned an octave below them, and acted upon by the finger and bow simultaneously as if single. Molleson's chief aim was to argue in favour of Scottish tunes and against the music of Haydn, Pleyel, and others.
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