Roger North (1651?-1734) was a successful lawyer and skilled
amateur musician who became Attorney General to James II. After the
1688 Revolution he retired from public life and devoted his time to
writing on a wide range of topics. Memoirs of Musick originally
formed the final section of North's 1728 treatise on music theory,
The Musicall Grammarian. It covers aspects of music history (or
'historico-critcall scrapps' as North calls them) from Ancient
Greece to Corelli, and includes a substantial account of John
Jenkins, who taught North the viol. Charles Burney quoted from the
Memoirs in his General History of Music (1776-1789), but this 1846
edition by the musicologist Edward Rimbault was the first time they
appeared in print. The book includes an introduction on the
manuscript of the Memoirs (now in Hereford Cathedral Library), a
short biography of North and extensive explanatory notes to the
text.
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