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A musical dictionary [electronic resource] : containing a full explanation of all the terms made use...

A musical dictionary [electronic resource] : containing a full explanation of all the terms made use...

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A musical dictionary [electronic resource] : containing a full explanation of all the terms made use of in the historical, theoretical, and practical parts of music: Also Explanations of the Doctrines of Ancient Music, and Mathematical and Philosophical Inquiries into the Nature of Sound with regard to Intervals, Concords, and Discords: Together with A full Description of all the various Kinds of Musical Instruments (not contained in any other Dictionary). The whole carefully abstracted from the best Authors in the Greek, Latin, Italian, French, and English Languages, By James Grassineau, Gent. A New Edition, to which is added An Appendix, selected from the Dictionnaire de Musique of M. Rousseau: Containing All the New Improvements in Music since the first Publication of this Dictionary.

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A musical dictionary [electronic resource] : containing a full explanation of all the terms made use of in the historical, theoretical, and practical parts of music: Also Explanations of the Doctrines of Ancient Music, and Mathematical and Philosophical Inquiries into the Nature of Sound with regard to Intervals, Concords, and Discords: Together with A full Description of all the various Kinds of Musical Instruments (not contained in any other Dictionary). The whole carefully abstracted from the best Authors in the Greek, Latin, Italian, French, and English Languages, By James Grassineau, Gent. A New Edition, to which is added An Appendix, selected from the Dictionnaire de Musique of M. Rousseau: Containing All the New Improvements in Music since the first Publication of this Dictionary.

Publisher

London : printed for J. Robson, Bookseller, at the Feathers in New Bond Street, MDCCLXIX. [1769]

Uniform title

Dictionnaire de musique. English.

Date

MDCCLXIX. [1769]

Record Identifier

74VvQRV6ZVQd

MMS ID

991014494629702626

Language

English

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Physical content

xii,347,[1];[4],52p.,plates : music,engr.music ; 8°.

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Publisher

London : printed for J. Robson, Bookseller, at the Feathers in New Bond Street, MDCCLXIX. [1769]

Edition

A new edition, to which is added an appendix, selected from the Dictionnaire de musique of M. Rousseau: ..

Place of Publication

England

Date Published

MDCCLXIX. [1769]

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Available for use in the Library. Available from home to registered NSW residents.

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A musical dictionary [electronic resource] : containing a full explanation of all the terms made use of in the historical, theoretical, and practical parts of music: Also Explanations of the Doctrines of Ancient Music, and Mathematical and Philosophical Inquiries into the Nature of Sound with regard to Intervals, Concords, and Discords: Together wi...

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General note

A reissue of the edition printed for J. Wilcox, 1740, with a new half-title and titlepage, and to which has been added: 'Appendix to Grassineau's Musical dictionary' with separate titlepage, pagination and register.

Half-title: 'Grassineau's Musical dictionary: .. '.

In fact a translation of the 'Dictionnaire de musique' by Sébastien de Brossard.

Reproduction of original from British Library....

Citation / References Note

ESTC T112419.

Additional physical form availability note

Also available in microfilm held offsite at RAV/FM4/51.

Reproduction note

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

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991014494629702626