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John Gunn: Musician Scholar in Enlightenment Britain (Hardcover)
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John Gunn: Musician Scholar in Enlightenment Britain (Hardcover)
Series: Music in Britain, 1600-2000
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Examines the life and work of Scottish cellist and antiquarian John
Gunn (1766-1824) through newly discovered sources. The Scottish
cellist and antiquarian John Gunn (1766-1824) is unique among
British writers on music in the late eighteenth and early
nineteenth century. Learned and practical, at home in classical and
modern languages, knowledgeable in a wide range of musical topics
and with even wider-ranging interests, and committed to the ideal
of progress through rational thought, he typified the
Enlightenment. His published output was large and diverse: a cello
treatise in two quite different editions; two books on the flute
and one on the piano; a treatise on figured bass; a history of the
harp in the Highlands; and a translation of a French work of music
theory. The list of his unrealised publications is even longer,
including a proof of the oriental origins of the Scots. He married
Anne Young, a well-known Edinburgh piano teacher, and his letters
cast new light on the circumstances and date of her death. Taking
account of Gunn's diverse experiences as a musician-scholar in
Cambridge, London and Edinburgh, studying his sundry occupations,
and exploring his social connections through a recently unearthed
cache of his letters, this study moves away from 'treatise
archaeology' and offers a broader view than is usually possible
with such figures. The book will be of interest to those studying
historical performance practice, music education in Enlightenment
Britain, and the dissemination of Enlightenment thought.
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