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Book Roger North s The Musicall Grammarian 1728

Download or read book Roger North s The Musicall Grammarian 1728 written by Roger North and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-04-20 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A treatise on musical eloquence in all its branches, first published in 1990.

Book The Musical Grammarian

Download or read book The Musical Grammarian written by Roger North and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Roger North s the Musical Grammarian and Theory of Sounds

Download or read book Roger North s the Musical Grammarian and Theory of Sounds written by Mary Chan and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Grammarians

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  • Author : Cathleen Schine
  • Publisher : Sarah Crichton Books
  • Release : 2019-09-03
  • ISBN : 0374712190
  • Pages : 272 pages

Download or read book The Grammarians written by Cathleen Schine and published by Sarah Crichton Books. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enchanting, comic love letter to sibling rivalry and the English language. From the author compared to Nora Ephron and Nancy Mitford, not to mention Jane Austen, comes a new novel celebrating the beauty, mischief, and occasional treachery of language. The Grammarians are Laurel and Daphne Wolfe, identical, inseparable redheaded twins who share an obsession with words. They speak a secret “twin” tongue of their own as toddlers; as adults making their way in 1980s Manhattan, their verbal infatuation continues, but this love, which has always bound them together, begins instead to push them apart. Daphne, copy editor and grammar columnist, devotes herself to preserving the dignity and elegance of Standard English. Laurel, who gives up teaching kindergarten to write poetry, is drawn, instead, to the polymorphous, chameleon nature of the written and spoken word. Their fraying twinship finally shreds completely when the sisters go to war, absurdly but passionately, over custody of their most prized family heirloom: Merriam Webster’s New International Dictionary, Second Edition. Cathleen Schine has written a playful and joyful celebration of the interplay of language and life. A dazzling comedy of sisterly and linguistic manners, a revelation of the delights and stresses of intimacy, The Grammarians is the work of one of our great comic novelists at her very best.

Book Desktop Grammarian

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  • Author : Robert T. Rhode
  • Publisher : Infinity Publishing
  • Release : 2010-11-18
  • ISBN : 0741492059
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Desktop Grammarian written by Robert T. Rhode and published by Infinity Publishing. This book was released on 2010-11-18 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The New Grammarians  Funeral

Download or read book The New Grammarians Funeral written by Ian Robinson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is probably the sharpest consideration of Chomskyan linguistics yet to appear. Ian Robinson argues that it is important to recognise Chomsky's positive achievement as a definition of the domain of traditional syntax in the context of an adherence to traditional grammar. But this strictly limited achievement offers no basis for many of the claims made for linguistics. Chomsky's views of language as a whole are narrow and conceptually confused; his psychology is based on the predication of unnecessary entities; and the central ambition to make linguistics a natural science is deeply misconceived. The common reader will find the argument clear and invigorating. The study of language necessarily interests philosophers as well as linguists: so the ordinary person with no more than an interest in poetry or speech may feel himself disadvantaged as an amateur. On the contrary: it is by the common reader that the discussion of language is finally judged, and Mr Robinson speaks for the central common sense of speakers and readers of language and literature.

Book The Musical World

Download or read book The Musical World written by and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Musicall Grammarian  1728

Download or read book The Musicall Grammarian 1728 written by Roger North and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bhartr  hari  Philosopher and Grammarian

Download or read book Bhartr hari Philosopher and Grammarian written by Saroja Bhate and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. This book was released on 1994 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bhartrhari lived in the tenth century c.e. Being both a grammarian and philosopher, his influence on subsequent grammatical and philosophical thought in India has been enormous in spite of this modern scholarship has not yet given him the attention he deserves no doubt because his extent writings are difficult and were not until recently, available in satisfactory editions. Interest among scholars for Bhartrhari is now, however, growing. This is the reason why an international conference on Bhartrhari was organized in January 1992 in Pune, under the joint auspices of the University of Poons and the University of Lausanne (Switzerland). The present volume contains some of the papers read at this conference as well as an up-to-date bibliography on Bhartrhari.

Book The End of Early Music

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  • Author : Bruce Haynes
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2007-07-20
  • ISBN : 0195189876
  • Pages : 305 pages

Download or read book The End of Early Music written by Bruce Haynes and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-07-20 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description

Book A General History of the Science and Practice of Music     A New Edition  with the Author s Posthumous Notes   Supplementary Volume of Portraits

Download or read book A General History of the Science and Practice of Music A New Edition with the Author s Posthumous Notes Supplementary Volume of Portraits written by John Hawkins and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Pathetick Musician

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  • Author : Bruce Haynes
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2016
  • ISBN : 0199373736
  • Pages : 361 pages

Download or read book The Pathetick Musician written by Bruce Haynes and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baroque oboists Bruce Haynes and Geoffrey Burgess established reputations as authorities on the history of their instrument with their co-authored book The Oboe, voted an outstanding achievement by the American Music Instrument Society. Haynes' writings, notably The End of Early Music, are known for pioneering new approaches in historical performance practice and inspiring healthy debate among scholars and performers of early music. Burgess, an instructor at the Eastman School of Music, recently published Well-Tempered Woodwinds: Friedrich von Huene and the Making of Early Music in a New World, which combines the biography of a leading manufacturer of historic instruments with a history of the emerging early music scene in America. Bruce Haynes passed away in May, 2011.

Book Grove s Dictionary of Music and Musicians

Download or read book Grove s Dictionary of Music and Musicians written by George Grove and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 930 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book  The Courtly Consort Suite in German Speaking Europe  1650 706

Download or read book The Courtly Consort Suite in German Speaking Europe 1650 706 written by Michael Robertson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dance music at the courts of seventeenth-century Germany is a genre that is still largely unknown. Dr Michael Robertson sets out to redress the balance and study the ensemble dance suites that were played at the German courts between the end of the Thirty Years War and the early years of the eighteenth century. At many German courts during this time, it was fashionable to emulate everything that was French. As part of this process, German musicians visited Paris throughout the second half of the seventeenth century, and brought French courtly music back with them on their return. For the last two decades of the century, this meant the works of Jean-Baptiste Lully, and his music and its influence spread rapidly through the courts of Europe. Extracts from Lully's dramatic stage works were circulated in both published editions and manuscript. These extracts are considered in some detail, especially in terms of their relationship to the suite. The nobility also played their part in this process: French musicians and German players with specialist knowledge were often hired to coach their German colleagues in the art of playing in the French manner, the franz?sischer Art. The book examines the dissemination of dance music, instrumentation and performance practice, and the differences between the French and Italian styles. It also studies the courtly suites before the advent of Lullism and the differences between the suites of court composers and town musicians. With the possible exception of Georg Muffat's two Florilegium collections of suites, much of the dance music of the German Lullists is largely unknown; court composers such as Cousser, Erlebach, Johann Fischer and Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer all wrote fine collections of ensemble suites, and these are examined in detail. Examples from these suites, some published for the first time, are given throughout the book in order to demonstrate the music's quality and show that its neglect is completely unjustifi

Book The Beginnings of the Modern Philosophy of Music in England

Download or read book The Beginnings of the Modern Philosophy of Music in England written by Jamie C. Kassler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Isaac Vossius s De poematum cantu et viribus rhythmi  1673

Download or read book Isaac Vossius s De poematum cantu et viribus rhythmi 1673 written by Peter Martens and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-10-25 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr Peter Martens provides the first complete edited English translation of, and commentary on, Issac Vossius’s De poematum cantu et viribus rythmi, a late seventeenth-century work of Continental musical humanism, all the more interesting for being published in England and dedicated to royalist Henry Bennett, Duke of Arlington. This treatise plays an important but poorly understood role in the continued development of rhythmopoeia; Vossius continues the arguments of figures such as Vincenzo Galilei and Marin Mersenne - desiring to link linguistic rhythm, music, and the passions - by proposing a practical, if undemonstrated, method for doing so based on ancient poetic feet. This resuscitation of poetic feet in the service of affect is made explicit by Vossius, but is undoubtedly more familiar to musicologists from Wolfgang Caspar Printz's 1696 Phrynis Mitilenaeus or Johann Mattheson's 1739 Der vollkommene Capellmeister. Vossius, or more correctly, De poematum cantu, was often cited during the century after its publication, and no modern treatment of rhythmopoeia seems complete without a citation or short excerpt from this work. There is little secondary literature that focuses on this treatise, but what does exist links this work directly to John Dryden's composition of his 1687 and 1697 St. Cecilia odes, and their musical settings by Giovanni Battista Draghi and Jeremiah Clarke, respectively. In Dean Mace and H. Neville Davies' debate over the extent of Vossius's influence on these works can be found a rich picture of the contentious issues surrounding text-setting and musical affect that so occupied a great many writers in late-seventeenth-century England. A full translation and accompanying discussion of Vossius's own sources and musical influences allows English-language students and scholars to access and study this work in the depth and to the degree it deserves.

Book Inner Music

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jamie Croy Kassler
  • Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
  • Release : 1995
  • ISBN : 9780838636473
  • Pages : 340 pages

Download or read book Inner Music written by Jamie Croy Kassler and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Musical instruments, as resonating systems, have been used as models for understanding human character from the seventeenth century onward. In Inner Music, Jamie C. Kassler explores the implications of this model -- how, for example, someone's character, conceived instrumentally, plays and is played upon, as well as the kinds of music it plays.