Composition: A Brief Account of, and an Introduction to, 8 Lectures in the Science of Music (Overend, Marmaduke)
| Title | A Brief Account of, and an Introduction to, 8 Lectures in the Science of Music, to be read as soon as 50 subscribers, at 1 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 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. |
| Creators | Marmaduke Overend (composer) |
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| First published | 1781 |
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| Composition types | Music theory |
| Language | English |
| Period | Classical |
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| Details | Section | Type | Publisher | Date | File |
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| view | Complete | — | London: for the Author | 1781 | Complete Book · view |
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