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Author : Roger North
Release : 2006-04-20
Genre : Music
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Book Rating : 914/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Roger North's The Musicall Grammarian 1728 by : Roger North
Download or read book Roger North's The Musicall Grammarian 1728 written by Roger North. This book was released on 2006-04-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A treatise on musical eloquence in all its branches, first published in 1990.
Author : Jamie C. Kassler
Release : 2016-04-01
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 759/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Seeking Truth: Roger North's Notes on Newton and Correspondence with Samuel Clarke c.1704-1713 by : Jamie C. Kassler
Download or read book Seeking Truth: Roger North's Notes on Newton and Correspondence with Samuel Clarke c.1704-1713 written by Jamie C. Kassler. This book was released on 2016-04-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1690s Roger North was preparing to remove from London to Rougham, Norfolk, where he planned to continue his search for truth, which for him meant knowledge of nature, including human nature. But this search was interrupted by three events. First, between c.1704 and the early part of 1706, he read Newton’s book on rational (quantitative) mechanics and, afterwards, his book on optics in Clarke’s Latin translation. Second, towards the latter part of 1706, he and Clarke, a Norfolk clergyman, corresponded about matters relating to Newton’s two books, after which Clarke removed to London and the correspondence ceased. Third, in 1712 North received a letter from Clarke, requesting him to read and respond to his new publication on the philosophy of the Godhead. As Kassler details, each of these events presented a number of challenges to North’s values, as well as the way of philosophising he had learned as a student and practitioner of the common law. Because he never made public his responses to the challenges, her book also includes editions of North's notes on reading Newton’s books, as well as what now remains of the 1706 and later correspondence with Clarke. In addition, she presents analyses of some of North’s ’second thoughts’ about the issues raised in the notes and 1706 correspondence and, from an examination of Clarke’s main writings, provides a context for understanding the correspondence relating to the 1712 book.
Author : Rebecca Herissone
Release : 2000
Genre : Music
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Book Rating : 006/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Music Theory in Seventeenth-century England by : Rebecca Herissone
Download or read book Music Theory in Seventeenth-century England written by Rebecca Herissone. This book was released on 2000. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thus, over the course of the seventeenth century, there occurred a complete transformation in almost every aspect of theory: by the 1720s, many of the principles being described bore close relation to those still used today. Nowhere was this metamorphosis clearer than in England where, because of a traditional emphasis on practicality, there was much more willingness to accept and encourage new theoretical ideas than on the continent.
Author : Jamie C. Kassler
Release : 2017-05-15
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 597/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Honourable Roger North, 1651–1734 by : Jamie C. Kassler
Download or read book The Honourable Roger North, 1651–1734 written by Jamie C. Kassler. This book was released on 2017-05-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roger North is known today as a biographer and writer on music, architecture and estate management. Yet his writings, including thousands of pages still in manuscript, also contain critical reflections about intellectual and social changes taking place in England. This feature is little recognised, because North's reputation as an author was formed between 1740 and 1890, when seven of his manuscripts were published in editions that drastically altered his original texts, and when the reception of these works was influenced by 'Whig' criticism. Although some of North's writings were later edited according to more rigorous standards, many critics still utilise the discredited editions and continue to repeat 'Whig' stereotypes of North. Eschewing such stereotypes, Jamie C. Kassler provides the first interpretation of North's philosophy by retrieving what is consistent in his pattern of thought and by analysing some of his practices and purposes as a writer. By these methods, she shows that North, a common lawyer by profession, combined the moral scepticism of Montaigne with the legal philosophy of Coke, Selden and Hale. The result was a sceptical philosophy that accounts for North's critical reflections on the dogmatism of natural-law doctrine, both in its medieval intellectualist version and in its voluntarist reformulation that began with Grotius and was developed by Hobbes, Pufendorf and Locke. Kassler bases her interpretation on a wide range of North's writings, even those in which one might least expect to find a philosophy. In addition, one of his manuscripts, which is edited here for the first time, includes an exposition of his jurisprudence, as well as his attempt to bring England's past into the legal tradition. These features form part of North's broader argument that language, including the language of law, is the invention of humans and a representation of their changing history and habits, an argument that he later extended to musical 'language' in his more finished essay, 'The Musicall Grammarian' (1728).
Author : William Oliver Strunk
Release : 1998
Genre : Music
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Book Rating : 524/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Source Readings in Music History by : William Oliver Strunk
Download or read book Source Readings in Music History written by William Oliver Strunk. This book was released on 1998. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive collection of great writings on music from ancient Greece through the twentieth century.
