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Thomas Salmon: Writings on Music - Volume II: A Proposal to Perform Musick and Related Writings, 1685-1706 (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Thomas Salmon: Writings on Music - Volume II: A Proposal to Perform Musick and Related Writings, 1685-1706 (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Music Theory in Britain, 1500-1700: Critical Editions
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This is the second volume in a two-part set on the writings of
Thomas Salmon. Salmon (1647-1706) is remembered today for the fury
with which Matthew Locke greeted his first foray into musical
writing, the Essay to the Advancement of Musick (1672), and the
near-farcical level to which the subsequent pamphlet dispute
quickly descended. Salmon proposed a radical reform of musical
notation, involving a new set of clefs which he claimed, and Locke
denied, would make learning and performing music much easier (these
writings are the subject of Volume I). Later in his life Salmon
devoted his attention to an exploration of the possible reform of
musical pitch. He made or renewed contact with instrument-makers
and performers in London, with the mathematician John Wallis, with
Isaac Newton and with the Royal Society of London through its
Secretary Hans Sloane. A series of manuscript treatises and a
published Proposal to Perform Musick, in Perfect and Mathematical
Proportions (1688) paved the way for an appearance by Salmon at the
Royal Society in 1705, when he provided a demonstration performance
by professional musicians using instruments specially modified to
his designs. This created an explicit overlap between the spaces of
musical performance and of experimental performance, as well as
raising questions about the meaning and the source of musical
knowledge similar to those raised in his work on notation. Benjamin
Wardhaugh presents the first published scholarly edition of
Salmon's writings on pitch, previously only available mostly in
manuscript.
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