Description: John Wallis : Writings on Music, Hardcover by Cram, David (EDT); Wardhaugh, Benjamin (EDT), ISBN 0754668703, ISBN-13 9780754668701, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US John Wallis (1), was one of the foremost British mathematicians of the seventeenth century, and is also remembered for his important writings on grammar and logic. An interest in music theory led him to produce translations into Latin of three ancient Greek texts - those of Ptolemy, Porphyry and Bryennius - and involved him in discussions with Henry Oldenburg, the Secretary of the Royal Society, Thomas Salmon and other individuals as his ideas developed. The texts presented in this volume cover the relationship of ancient and modern tuning theory, the building of organs, the phenomena of resonance, and other musical topics.
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Book Title: John Wallis : Writings on Music
Number of Pages: 254 Pages
Publication Name: John Wallis: Writings on Music
Language: English
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Year: 2014
Subject: History & Criticism, Ethnomusicology, Instruction & Study / Theory
Item Height: 0.7 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 20.8 Oz
Item Length: 9.6 in
Subject Area: Music
Author: Benjamin Wardhaugh
Item Width: 6.3 in
Series: Music Theory in Britain, 1500-1700: Critical Editions Ser.
Format: Hardcover
