John Birchensha: Writings on Music
- Author: Field, Christopher D.S.
- Author: Wardhaugh, Benjamin
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Contents
- Contents: Introduction
- Birchensha's reputation as a music theorist
- Birchensha's life
- The practical part of music
- The mathematical and philosophical parts of music
- 'To reduce all the parts of musick to a regularity and just order'
- The sources
- Transcription policy
- Dates. John Birchensha's Writings on Music: Dedicatory epistle and preface to Templum Musicum (1664)
- Letter to the Royal Society (26 April 1664)
- ' A compendious discourse'
- Birchensha's description of his 'grand scale' (9 June 1665)
- 'Animadversion' for Syntagma musicA| (1672)
- Synopsis of Syntagma musicA| for the Royal Society (February 1675/6)
- Birchensha demonstrates his 'compleat scale of musick' to the Royal Society (10 February 1675/6)
- Rules of composition, I: Silas Taylor's manuscript
- Rules of composition, II: William Corbett's manuscript
- Rules of composition, III: Francis Withey's manuscript
- Bibliography
- Index.