Thomas Salmon: Writings on Music - Volume I: An Essay to the Advancement of Musick and the Ensuing Controversy, 1672-3

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. Beneath the unedifying invective employed by Salmon, Locke and their supporters howev

List of contents

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.

Summary

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. Beneath the unedifying invective employed by Salmon, Locke and their supporters howev

Product details

• Authors: Benjamin Wardhaugh
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.10.2024
• EAN: 9781032923383
• ISBN: 978-1-032-92338-3
• No. of pages: 290
• Weight: 540 g
• Series: Music Theory in Britain, 1500–1700: Critical Editions
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, C 1600 To C 1700, Art music, orchestral and formal music, Western "classical" music