John Birchensha: Writings on Music

Author : Benjamin Wardhaugh,Christopher D.S. Field

Paperback

Published : Wednesday 19 December 2018

ISBN : 9781138376212

Price : €57.32

Description

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 great aim was to publish a treatise on music in its philosophical, mathematical and practical aspects entitled Syntagma musicA▌. Unfortunately, the book never appeared, and no final manuscript of it survives. Recent research, however, has brought to light a number of manuscripts which allow us at last to form a more complete view of Birchenshas ideas and to gain at least a flavour of the lost Syntagma musicA▌.

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