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.
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One of the first documents to discuss in detail keyboard performance practice. Addresses matters of interest to scholars and performers, including temperament, ornamentation, fugue and the use of the organ in liturgical practice.
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The Traite de l'accord de l'espinette, first published in 1643 and issued in its second and final version in 1650, is the first French treatise devoted exclusively to keyboard performance practice. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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The Traite de l'accord de l'espinette, first published in 1643 and issued in its second and final version in 1650, is the first French treatise devoted exclusively to keyboard performance practice. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
superfluous tone, mean semitone, continuous fugue, meantone temperament, meantone system, musica libri septem, comma meantone, keyboard temperament, major semitone, split accidentals, minor semitone, pure major thirds, syntonic comma, harpsichord making, harmonic tuning, observations physiques, stringed keyboard instruments, major tone, equal temperament, solmization syllables, minor tone, les tons, facsimile edition, twelve notes, tuning procedure Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Syntagma Musicum, Marin Mersenne, Michael Praetorius, The New Grove, Louis Couperin, Pietro Aaron, Jehan Titelouze, Mark Lindley, Andreas Werckmeister, Arnolt Schlick, Florent Bienvenu, Journal of Music Theory, Nicola Vicentino, Norbert Dufourcq, Three Centuries of Harpsichord Making, Almonte Howell, Antoine Parran, Constantin Huygens, Documents du Minutier, Guillaume Costeley, Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers, Journal of the American Musicological Society, New York New!
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- Dictionary Of Music And Musicians (9 Volumes)) (Music Book Index) by Sir George Grove on 4 pages
- Three Centuries of Harpsichord Making by Frank Hubbard on 4 pages
- Lutes, Viols, Temperaments by Lindley on page 40, page 68, and Back Matter
- Girolamo Frescobaldi by Frederick Hammond on page 41, and page 42
- The Structure of Recognizable Diatonic Tunings by Easley Blackwood on page 67, and Back Matter
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- Summa Musice: A Thirteenth-Century Manual for Singers (Cambridge Musical Texts and Monographs) by Christopher Page in Front Matter
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- The Virtuoso Flute-Player (Cambridge Musical Texts and Monographs) by Johann George Tromlitz in Front Matter
- Temperament: The Idea That Solved Music's Greatest Riddle by Stuart Isacoff in Back Matter
- Musica Getutscht: A Treatise on Musical Instruments (1511) by Sebastian Virdung (Cambridge Musical Texts and Monographs) by Sebastian Virdung in Front Matter
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