Thomas Salmon: Writings on Music: Volume I: An Essay to the Advancement of Musick and the Ensuing Controversy, 1672-3

By: Wardhaugh, Benjamin

Thomas Salmon (1647-1706) is remembered today for the fury with which Matthew Locke greeted his first foray into musical writing, the Essay to the Advancement of Musick (1672), and the near-farcical level to which the subsequent pamphlet dispute quickly descended. Salmon proposed a radical reform of musical notation, involving a new set of clefs which he claimed, and Locke denied, would make learning and performing music much easier. The incident...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032923385
• ISBN13: 9781032923383
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 290 Pages