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John Birchensha: Writings on Music (Paperback)
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John Birchensha: Writings on Music (Paperback)
Series: Music Theory in Britain, 1500-1700: Critical Editions
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John Birchensha (c.1605-?1681) is chiefly remembered for the
impression that his theories about music made on the
mathematicians, natural philosophers and virtuosi of the Royal
Society in the 1660s and 1670s, and for inventing a system that he
claimed would enable even those without practical experience of
music to learn to compose in a short time by means of 'a few easy,
certain, and perfect Rules'-his most famous composition pupil being
Samuel Pepys in 1662. His great aim was to publish a treatise on
music in its philosophical, mathematical and practical aspects
(which would have included a definitive summary of his rules of
composition), entitled Syntagma musicA|. Subscriptions for this
book were invited in 1672-3, and it was due to be published by
March 1675; but it never appeared, and no final manuscript of it
survives. Consequently knowledge about his work has hitherto
remained extremely sketchy. Recent research, however, has brought
to light a number of manuscripts which allow us at last to form a
more complete view of Birchensha's ideas. Almost none of this
material has been previously published. The new items include an
autograph treatise of c.1664 ('A Compendious Discourse of the
Principles of the Practicall & Mathematicall Partes of Musick')
which Birchensha presented to the natural philosopher Robert Boyle,
and which covers concisely much of the ground that he intended to
cover in Syntagma musicA|; a detailed synopsis for Syntagma musicA|
which he prepared for a meeting of the Royal Society in February
1676; and an autograph notebook (now in Brussels) containing his
six rules of composition with music examples, presumably written
for a pupil. Bringing all this material together in a single volume
will allow scholars to see how Birchensha's rules and theories
developed over a period of fifteen years, and to gain at least a
flavour of the lost Syntagma musicA|.
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