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Essay on the origin of languages and writings related to music [[electronic resource] /] / Jean-Jacques Rousseau ; translated and edited by John T. Scott



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Autore: Rousseau Jean-Jacques <1712-1778.> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Essay on the origin of languages and writings related to music [[electronic resource] /] / Jean-Jacques Rousseau ; translated and edited by John T. Scott Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Hanover [N.H.], : University Press of New England, c1998
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (657 p.)
Disciplina: 780
Soggetto topico: Language and languages - Origin
Music and language
Music - 18th century - Philosophy and aesthetics
Music - France - 18th century - History and criticism
Querelle des Bouffons
Altri autori: ScottJohn T. <1963->  
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 515-603) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Chronology of Works in Volume 7; Introduction; Note on the Text; Plan Regarding New Signs for Music; Letter to the Mercure on a New System of Musical Notation; Dissertation on Modern Music; Letter on Italian and French Opera; Letter on "Omphale" (Grimm); Remarks on the Subject of the Letter by M. Grimm on "Omphale" (Raynal); Letter to M. Grimm on the Subject of the Remarks Added to His Letter on "Omphale"; "Notice" to Rinaldo da Capua's La Zingara; Letter from a Symphonist of the Royal Academy of Music to His Comrades in the Orchestra
Letter on French MusicObservations on Our Instinct for Music and on Its Principle (Rameau); Articles from the Encyclopedia; Errors on Music in the Encyclopedia (Rameau); Continuation of the Errors on Music in the Encyclopedia (Rameau); On the Principle of Melody, or Response to the "Errors on Music"; Examination of Two Principles Advanced by M. Rameau in His Brochure Entitled: "Errors on Music in the Encyclopedia"; Essay on the Origin of Languages; Pronunciation; On Theatrical Imitation; The Levite of Ephraïm; Dictionary of Music
Letter to Mr. Burney and Fragments of Observations on Gluck's "Alceste"Extract from a Response by the Underlaborer to His Frontman Concerning a Piece from Gluck's "Orfeo"; Appendix: "EnWn, il est en ma puissance," from Lully's Armide; Notes; Index
Sommario/riassunto: Rousseau's major works, available for the first time in a uniform English edition, continue with a work that situates Rousseau's linguistic and musical theory within his larger philosophical system.
Titolo autorizzato: Essay on the origin of languages and writings related to music  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-61168-127-8
0-585-23093-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910811055603321
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Serie: Collected Writings of Rousseau