A musical dictionary : being a collection of terms and characters, as well ancient as modern; including the historical, theoretical, and practical parts of music: As also, an Explanation of some Parts of the Doctrine of the Antients; Interspersed With Remarks on their Method and Practice, and curious Observations on the Phoenomena of Sound Mathematically considered, As it's Relations and Proportions constitute Intervals, And those again Concords and Discords. The whole carefully abstracted from the best authors in the Greek, Latin, Italian, French, and English Languages. By James Grassineau, Gent.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brossard, Sébastien de, 1655-1730.

Contributor:

Grassineau, James, approximately 1715-1769.

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 1.

Standardized Title:

Dictionnaire de musique. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Dictionaries.

Music.

Music--Dictionaries--Early works to 1800.

Genre:

Dictionaries.

Physical Description:

xii,347 pages, 1 unnumbered page,plates : music,engr.music ; 8⁰

Place of Publication:

London : printed [by C. Jephson] for J. Wilcox, at Virgil's-Head opposite the New Church in the Strand, 1740.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

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

Printer's name from colophon.

With a half-title.

In this issue, the first word of the title is over the "i" of "dictionary", and the "J" in the imprint is over "h" of "Church" in the address.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T135522.

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.