Roger North's The Musicall Grammarian 1728 (Cambridge Studies in Music)
Contributors: Mary Chan (Editor); Jamie Kassler (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: April 20, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 323
ISBN-13: 9780521024914
Subjects: Theory of music & musicology; Music/Songbooks; History and criticism; Music; Music theory; Philosophy and aesthetics; General; Music / General; Music / History & Criticism; Music--Philosophy and aesthetics--Early works to 1800; Semiotics; Early works to 1800
First sentence: In a draft for the work edited and presented here, North writes as a courtier, speaking of music as his mistress: A musicall family, conversation with the best masters of the time, and a pittance of formal teaching, made me a professor; and from a medler with most sorts of instruments (not excluding the voice,) a buisy body in transcribing, transposing, and composing, and a meeting-hunter of musick in London for divers years.