UID:
almafu_9960117580902883
Format:
1 online resource (viii, 128 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
0-511-62728-9
Series Statement:
Cambridge musical texts and monographs
Uniform Title:
Traité de l'accord de l'espinette.
Content:
The Treatise on Harpsichord Tuning was the first French document to discuss keyboard performance practice in any detail. Jean Denis was both a harpsichord builder of renown and the organist of a prominent Parisian church, and is thus an authority worthy of careful study. The treatise addresses numerous matters of interest to both scholars and performers, including temperament, ornamentation, fugue, and the use of the organ in liturgical practice. Also included in the treatise are a keyboard prelude designed to reveal errors in tuning, and two delightful anecdotes attesting to the power of music. The forthright character of Denis's writing lends a unique and distinctly enjoyable tone to the work.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Jean Denis and the Traite de l'accord de l'espinette --
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Jean Denis and meantone temperament --
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The eight tons of the church --
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The Translation --
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A comparison of parallel passages from the published writings of Jean Denis and Marin Mersenne --
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A transcription of the 'Prelude for determining whether the tuning is good throughout' --
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Sixteenth-, seventeenth-, and eighteenth-century sources --
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Nineteenth- and twentieth-century sources.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-31402-X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-30628-0
Language:
English
