Roger North's The Musicall Grammarian 1728

A treatise on musical eloquence in all its branches, first published in 1990.

Roger North (Author), Mary Chan (Edited by), Jamie Kassler (Edited by)

9780521331319, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 28 September 1990

324 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm, 0.65 kg

Roger North's The Musicall Grammarian 1728, first published in 1990, 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.

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.

Subject Areas: Theory of music & musicology [AVA]