Essai sur la musique ancienne et moderne.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Laborde, M. de (Jean-Benjamin), 1734-1794, author.

Contributor:

Pierres, Philippe-Denis, 1741-1808, printer.

Onfroy, Eugène, -1809, bookseller.

Roussier, Pierre-Joseph, 1716 or 1717-1792

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

Music--History and criticism.

Music.

French poetry--History and criticism.

French poetry.

Genre:

Music.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Marbled papers (Paper)

Printers' devices (Printing)

Penn Provenance:

Laborde, M. de (Jean-Benjamin) (autograph)

Physical Description:

4 volumes : illustrations, plates, folded tables, music ; 26 cm (4to)

Fingerprint:

5.2. een. isi- l'(a 1780 (R) v.1 $2 fei

utla lers ner- d'le 1780 (R) v.2 $2 fei

s.e, ntnt r.de a.e. 1780 (R) v.3 $2 fei

u'us e.e; isx; anil 1780 (R) v.4 $2 fei

Place of Publication:

A Paris, : De l'Imprimerie de Ph.-D.Pierres, Imprimeur ordinaire du Roi; Et se vend Chez Eugene Onfroy, Libraire, rue de Hurepoix., M. DCC. LXXX. (1780)

Notes:

"Avec Approbation, & Privilége du Roi."; all title pages.

Printer's device on all title pages.

Includes errata notes for all four volumes in volume 1.

Includes half-title pages.

"M. l'abbé Roussier a accompagné ce mémoire d'und grande quantité de notes, de quelques observations, & d'une table raisonnées des matieres."--V.3, p. 678.

Vols. 3 and 4 consist of biographical and critical sketches of musicians, poets and writers on music (v.4: Poètes lyriques français).

"Morceaux de musique du 16 (subscript e) siècle": v. 2, p. 75-108. "Choix de chansons mises à quatre parties": v. 2, 178 p. at end.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Kislak Center copy has handwritten letter by the author in Volume 1. The letter is dated: "27th 1778".

OCLC:

5033968