Thomas Salmon: Writings on Music: Volume II: A Proposal to Perform Musick and Related Writings, 1685-1706

by Benjamin Wardhaugh

This is the second volume in a two-part set on the writings of Thomas Salmon. 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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032927615
• ISBN13: 9781032927619
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 202 Pages