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| Id |
18330 |
| 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 |
8vo. xii, 547, [i (errata)] pp. + 13 folding plates. |
| Description |
Original mottled leather, rebacked incorporating most of original backstrip and recornered, gilt in spine compartments, raised bands. 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 octavo edition - not cited in RISM B/VI/2 p.720. |
| Price |
£375.00 |
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