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[MUSIC] ROUSSEAU, JEAN JACQUES. Dictionnaire de musique.
. Paris: la veuve Duchesne, 1768. First octavo edition. Two volumes bound as one, contemporary mottled calf, all edges red. 8 x 5 inches (20 x 13 cm); [xii], 547, [1] pp., with folding plates A-N at rear. Neat restorations at foot of spine, old name on title, the foot of the Avertissement torn away (not affecting text), in all a clean copy.
"A vital force in determining musical thought in the second half of the [eighteenth] century" (Thomas Hunt). Rousseau's compilation is generally considered the first modern music dictionary, and it had a profound influence on subsequent publications, and corrected many errors in previous works. It is a profoundly rigorous work, expounding Rousseau's principles of aesthetics and philosophy of music, as well as occasional barbed comments about contemporaries such as Rameau. One of the plates is a seating plan of the Dresden orchestra.
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