A Musical Dictionary; Being a Collections of Terms and Characters, As well Ancient as Modern; Including the Historical, Theoretical, and Practical Parts of Music: As also, an Explanation of some Parts of the Doctrine of the Antients; Interspersed with Remarks on their Method and Practice, and curious Observations on the Phaenomena of Sound Mathematically considered, As it's Relations and Proportions constitute Intervals, And those again Concords and Discords. The whole carefully abstracted from the best Authors in the Greek, Latin, Italian, French, and English Languages.
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London: Printed [by C. Jephson] for J. Wilcox..., 1740. FIRST EDITION. 8vo (in 4s), pp. v [vi blank], ix - x, ix - xii, 347 [348 adverts], music illustrations in text, 4 engraved plates (2 folding), Z2.3 in uncancelled state, contemporary calf (dried and worn); three tears to inner margin of title-page, front cover detached. A poor copy Much of the material in this work derives from the work of the French musicologist, Sebastien de Brossard, as well as other contemporary sources. "While Grassineau's Dictionary awaits serious studies in textual criticism, it can be said to be the most important dictionary of music published in Britain until the translation of Rousseau's. In 1769, after Grassineau's death [in 1767], it was reissued with a separate appendix containing articles from Rousseau's dictionary; the editor is unknown" (New Grove). ESTC on-line lists two separate entries for a 1740 printing, but does not distinguish between them in any noticeable way, except for locations.
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- A Musical Dictionary; Being a Collections of Terms and Characters, As well Ancient as Modern; Including the Historical, Theoretical, and Practical Parts of Music: As also, an Explanation of some Parts of the Doctrine of the Antients; Interspersed with Remarks on their Method and Practice, and curious Observations on the Phaenomena of Sound Mathematically considered, As it's Relations and Proportions constitute Intervals, And those again Concords and Discords. The whole carefully abstracted from the best Authors in the Greek, Latin, Italian, French, and English Languages.
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- London: Printed [by C. Jephson] for J. Wilcox..., 1740
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