Roger North's Writings on Music C.1704-c.1709
Author : Mary Chan
Publisher : School of English University of New South Wales
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 45,8 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Music
ISBN :
The Beginnings of the Modern Philosophy of Music in England
Author : Jamie C. Kassler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 18,61 MB
Release : 2017-09-19
Category : Music
ISBN : 1351894102
Book Description
In 1677 a slim quarto volume was published anonymously as A Philosophical Essay of Musick. Written by Francis North (1637-85), chief justice of the Common Pleas, the Essay is in the form of a legal case argued from an hypothesis. Utilising the pendulum as his hypothesis, North provided a rationale from mechanics for the emerging new musical practice we now call 'tonality'. He also made auditory resonance the connecting link between acoustical events in the external world and the musical meanings the mind makes on the basis of sensory perception. Thus began the modern philosophy of music that culminated with the work of Hermann von Helmholtz. As a step towards understanding this tradition, Jamie C. Kassler examines the 1677 Essay in its historical context. After assessing three seventeenth-century criticisms of it and outlining how one critic developed some implications in the Essay, she summarises the basic principles that have guided the modern philosophy of music from its beginnings in the 1677 Essay. The book includes an annotated edition of the Essay as well as the comments of the three critics.
The Oxford Handbook of the History of Mathematics
Author : Eleanor Robson
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 927 pages
File Size : 12,98 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 0199213127
Book Description
This handbook explores the history of mathematics, addressing what mathematics has been and what it has meant to practise it. 36 self-contained chapters provide a fascinating overview of 5000 years of mathematics and its key cultures for academics in mathematics, historians of science, and general historians.
Notes
Author : Music Library Association
Publisher :
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 28,87 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Music
ISBN :
Book Description
The Writers Directory
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 23,7 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Authors, American
ISBN :
Book Description
Notes of Me
Author : Roger North
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 11,5 MB
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802044716
Book Description
North (1651-1734) makes lively forays into the worlds of natural philosophy, Christian stoicism, Cartesian science, architecture, music, education, and James II's treatment of the Protestant courtiers.
History of the Colony of New Haven, Before and After the Union with Connecticut
Author : Edward Rodolphus Lambert
Publisher :
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,37 MB
Release : 1838
Category : Branford (Conn. : Town)
ISBN :
Book Description
Prominent Families of New York
Author : Lyman Horace Weeks
Publisher :
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 28,79 MB
Release : 1898
Category : New York (N.Y.)
ISBN :
Book Description
English as a Global Language
Author : David Crystal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 20,17 MB
Release : 2012-03-29
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1107611806
Book Description
Written in a detailed and fascinating manner, this book is ideal for general readers interested in the English language.
Musical Creativity in Restoration England
Author : Rebecca Herissone
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 50,5 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Composition (Music)
ISBN : 1107289556
Book Description
Musical Creativity in Restoration England is the first comprehensive investigation of approaches to creating music in late seventeenth-century England. Understanding creativity during this period is particularly challenging because many of our basic assumptions about composition - such as concepts of originality, inspiration and genius - were not yet fully developed. In adopting a new methodology that takes into account the historical contexts in which sources were produced, Rebecca Herissone challenges current assumptions about compositional processes and offers new interpretations of the relationships between notation, performance, improvisation and musical memory. She uncovers a creative culture that was predominantly communal, and reveals several distinct approaches to composition, determined not by individuals, but by the practical function of the music. Herissone's new and original interpretations pose a fundamental challenge to our preconceptions about what it meant to be a composer in the seventeenth century and raise broader questions about the interpretation of early modern notation.
