Roger North's The Musicall Grammarian 1728

Roger North, Edited by Mary Chan, Jamie Kassler

Roger North’s The Musicall Grammarian 1728 is a treatise on musical eloquence in all its branches. Of its five parts, I and II, on the orthoepy, orthography and syntax of music, constitute a grammar: III and IV, on the arts of invention and communication, form a rhetoric: and V, on etymology, consists of a history. Two substantial chapters of commentary introduce the text, which is edited here for the first time in its entirety: Jamie Kassler places his treatise within the broader context not only of Norths musical and non-musical writings but also their relation to the intellectual ferment of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and Mary Chan describes physical and textual aspects of the treatise as evidence for North’s processes of thinking about musical thinking.

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Contents

• List of illustrations
• Foreword
• Biographical note
• Introduction I Jamie C. Kassler
• Preface
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Roger Norths science of music
• 3. Roger Norths philosophy of music conclusion
• Introduction II Mary Chan
• Preface
• 1. Physical aspects of the manuscript
• 2. Textual aspects of the manuscript
• 3. Method of composition and matters of style and usage
• Conclusion
• Editorial guidelines
• The Musicall Grammarian 1728
• Glossary
• References and bibliography
• Index.