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| Id |
18305 |
| Category |
antiquarian book |
| Author / Composer |
ROUSSEAU, Jean-Jacques (1712-1778) |
| Title |
Dictionnaire de Musique. |
| Place |
A Paris |
| Publisher |
Chez la Veuve Duchesne |
| Publication Date |
1768 |
| ISBN / Plate No. |
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| Series |
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| Size |
Small 4to. ix, [iii], 548 [i.e. 556 (pp.473-480 repeated)], [ii]pp. + 13 folding plates. |
| Description |
Original mottled calf (edges and corners generally worn and bumped), gilt in spine compartments, raised bands, rebacked. Some general light foxing. The Dictionnaire de Musique is seen as Rousseau’s most significant work, and is still a valuable reference work today. Its main object was "to deal with terms relating to knowledge and technique, not only providing definitions but also ... furnishing explanations and showing the relationships of concepts" (NG). The Dictionnaire’s nine hundred entries cover ideas relating to acoustics, music theory, performance, interpretation, the poetics of musical and operatic genres, general musical aesthetics, the history of music and its geographical variation. |
| Reference |
First edition. RISM B/VI/2 p.720. Gregory p.237. Robert Cowden, A Collector's Journey, no.109. |
| Price |
£600.00 |
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