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A brief account of, and an introduction to, eight lectures, in the science of music to be read as soon as fifty subscribers, at one guinea each for the course, shall have sent their address for that purpose; in which are proposed, to be demonstrated and to be explained the radical sources of melody and harmony, Deduced from the rational Principles of the Philosophy of Sounds, from Arithmetical Calculations, and from Geometrical Divisions in the Construction of Monochords, to ascertain the different Scales of the several Genera of the Greeks and the Moderns; by a clear, a concise, and an intelligible Method, different from what has been attempted before. By Marmaduke Overend, Organist of Isleworth, Middlesex

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Overend, Marmaduke
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London printed for the author, and sold by Mess. Payne and Son, Booksellers, in Castle Street, at the Back of the King's Mews, and Mess. Thompsons, music sellers, at No. 75, St. Paul's Church Yard; where, or to the Author, the Encouragers are desired to leave or send their Names, (post-Paid) and when the above Number are received, Tickets will be provided, Eight of which will be delivered to each Subscriber, with an Account of the Time and Place, at the Price above specified 1781, MDCCLXXXI. [1781]
Subjects:
Music / Acoustics And Physics / Early Works To 1800
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Collection: Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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