Thomas Salmon: Writings on Music
Volume I: An Essay to the Advancement of Musick and the Ensuing Controversy, 1672-3
Seiten
2013
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-7546-6844-2 (ISBN)
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-7546-6844-2 (ISBN)
Thomas Salmon (1647-1706) is remembered today for the fury with which Matthew Locke greeted his first foray into musical writing, the "Essay to the Advancement of Musick" (1672), and the near-farcical level to which the subsequent pamphlet dispute quickly descended. This volume is a scholarly edition of Salmon's writings on notation.
Thomas Salmon (1647-1706) is remembered today for the fury with which Matthew Locke greeted his first foray into musical writing, the Essay to the Advancement of Musick (1672), and the near-farcical level to which the subsequent pamphlet dispute quickly descended. Salmon proposed a radical reform of musical notation, involving a new set of clefs which he claimed, and Locke denied, would make learning and performing music much easier. The incident has tended to be passed over rather briefly in the scholarly literature, but beneath the unedifying invective employed by Salmon, Locke and their supporters, serious and novel statements were being made about what constituted musical knowledge and what was the proper way to acquire it. This volume is the first published scholarly edition of Salmon's writings on notation, previously available only in microfilm and online facsimiles. A second volume to follow will present Salmon's writings on pitch - previously only available mostly in manuscript.
Thomas Salmon (1647-1706) is remembered today for the fury with which Matthew Locke greeted his first foray into musical writing, the Essay to the Advancement of Musick (1672), and the near-farcical level to which the subsequent pamphlet dispute quickly descended. Salmon proposed a radical reform of musical notation, involving a new set of clefs which he claimed, and Locke denied, would make learning and performing music much easier. The incident has tended to be passed over rather briefly in the scholarly literature, but beneath the unedifying invective employed by Salmon, Locke and their supporters, serious and novel statements were being made about what constituted musical knowledge and what was the proper way to acquire it. This volume is the first published scholarly edition of Salmon's writings on notation, previously available only in microfilm and online facsimiles. A second volume to follow will present Salmon's writings on pitch - previously only available mostly in manuscript.
Benjamin Wardhaugh, All Souls College, University of Oxford, UK.
Contents: Introduction. Thomas Salmon, An essay to the advancement of musick (1672); Matthew Locke, Observations upon a late book (1672); Thomas Salmon, A vindication of an essay (1672); Matthew Locke, The present practice of musick vindicated (1673); Select bibliography; Index.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 13.8.2013 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Music Theory in Britain, 1500–1700: Critical Editions |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 657 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7546-6844-4 / 0754668444 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7546-6844-2 / 9780754668442 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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