A Musical Dictionary: Containing a Full Explanation of All the Terms Made Use of in the Historical, Theoretical, and Practical Parts of Musi

Publisher Marketing: The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. The eighteenth-century fascination with Greek and Roman antiquity followed the systematic excavation of the ruins at Pompeii and Herculaneum in southern Italy; and after 1750 a neoclassical style dominated all artistic fields. The titles here trace developments in mostly English-language works on painting, sculpture, architecture, music, theater, and other disciplines. Instructional works on musical instruments, catalogs of art objects, comic operas, and more are also included. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++British LibraryT112419In fact a translation of the 'Dictionnaire de musique' by Sbastien de Brossard. 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 seLondon: printed for J. Robson, 1769. xii,347, [1];[4],52p., plates: music, engr.music; 8