Author: Thomas Payne (Londen)Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
A catalogue of twenty thousand volumes including the library of the late eminent Ralph Thoresby
Author: Thomas Payne (Londen)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
A Catalogue of twenty thousand volumes including the library of ... Mr. R. Thoresby ... on sale ... at T. Payne's
Author: Thomas PayneSpanish Books in the Europe of the Enlightenment (Paris and London)
Author: Nicolás Bas MartínPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004359524
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
In Spanish Books in the Europe of the Enlightenment (Paris and London) Nicolás Bas examines the image of Spain in eighteenth-century Europe, and in Paris and London in particular. His material has been scoured from an exhaustive interrogation of the records of the book trade. He refers to booksellers’ catalogues, private collections, auctions, and other sources of information in order to reconstruct the country’s cultural image. Rarely have these sources been searched for Spanish books, and never have they been as exhaustively exploited as they are in Bas’ book. Both England and France were conversant with some very negative ideas about Spain. The Black Legend, dating back to the sixteenth century, condemned Spain as repressive and priest-ridden. Bas shows however, that an alternative, more sympathetic, vision ran parallel with these negative views. His bibliographical approach brings to light the Spanish books that were bought, sold and ultimately read. The impression thus obtained is likely to help us understand not only Spain’s past, but also something of its present.
Thomas Salmon: Writings on Music
Author: Benjamin WardhaughPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351539191
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
This is the second volume in a two-part set on the writings of Thomas Salmon. 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 (these writings are the subject of Volume I). Later in his life Salmon devoted his attention to an exploration of the possible reform of musical pitch. He made or renewed contact with instrument-makers and performers in London, with the mathematician John Wallis, with Isaac Newton and with the Royal Society of London through its Secretary Hans Sloane. A series of manuscript treatises and a published Proposal to Perform Musick, in Perfect and Mathematical Proportions (1688) paved the way for an appearance by Salmon at the Royal Society in 1705, when he provided a demonstration performance by professional musicians using instruments specially modified to his designs. This created an explicit overlap between the spaces of musical performance and of experimental performance, as well as raising questions about the meaning and the source of musical knowledge similar to those raised in his work on notation. Benjamin Wardhaugh presents the first published scholarly edition of Salmon's writings on pitch, previously only available mostly in manuscript.
Thomas Salmon: A proposal to perform musick and related writings, 1685-1706
Author: Benjamin WardhaughPublisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 9780754668459
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
This is the second volume in a two-part set on the writings of Thomas Salmon. Salmon (1647-1706) is remembered today for proposing a radical reform of musical notation (these writings are the subject of Volume I). Later in his life Salmon devoted his attention to an exploration of the possible reform of musical pitch and raised questions about the meaning and the source of musical knowledge similar to those he raised in his work on notation. Benjamin Wardhaugh presents the first published scholarly edition of Salmon's writings on pitch, previously only available mostly in manuscript.
Sale Catalogues of Libraries of Eminent Persons
Author: Alan Noel Latimer MunbyPublisher: Cassell Academic
ISBN: 9780720103786
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
The Eighteenth Century
Author: Publisher: Primary Source Microfilm
ISBN: 9780892351527
Category : Early printed books
Languages : en
Pages : 592
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