Essay on the Origin of Languages and Writings Related to Music

Name: Essay on the Origin of Languages and Writings Related to Music
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ISBN: 9781584658009

ISBN-10: 1584658002

ISBN-13: 9781584658009

Edition: 2009

Authors: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, John T. Scott, John T. Scott

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List price: $65.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Dartmouth College
Publication date: 8/28/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 658
Size: 6.46" wide x 8.86" long x 1.51" tall
Weight: 2.2



Preface


Chronology of Works in Volume 7


Introduction


Note on the Text


Plan Regarding New Signs for Music


Letter to the Mercure on a New System of Musical Notation


Dissertation on Modern Music


Letter on Italian and French Opera


Letter on "Omphale" (Grimm)


Remarks on the Subject of the Letter by M. Grimm on "Omphale" (Raynal)


Letter to M. Grimm on the Subject of the Remarks Added to His Letter on "Omphale"


"Notice" to Rinaldo da Capua's La Zingara


Letter from a Symphonist of the Royal Academy of Music to His Comrades in the Orchestra


Letter on French Music


Observations on Our Instinct for Music and Its Principle (Rameau)


Articles from the Encyclopedia


Errors on Music in the Encyclopedia (Rameau)


Continuation of the Errors on Music in the Encyclopedia (Rameau)


On the Principle of Melody, or Response to the "Errors on Music"


Examination of Two Principles Advanced by M. Rameau in His Brochure Entitled: "Errors on Music in the Encyclopedia"


Essay on the Origin on Languages


Pronunciation


On Theatrical Imitation


The Levite of Ephraim


Dictionary of Music


Letter to Mr. Burney and Fragments of Observations on Gluck's "Alceste"


Extract from a Response by the Underlaborer to His Frontman Concerning a Piece from Gluck's "Orfeo"


Appendix "Enfin, il est en ma puissance," from Lully's Armide


Notes


Index