Roger North's the Musicall Grammarian 1728

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Focusing on musical eloquence, the treatise offers a comprehensive exploration across five parts, covering grammar, rhetoric, and history in music. The first two sections address the foundational elements of music, while the latter parts delve into invention and communication. Accompanied by two insightful chapters of commentary, the text is presented in its entirety for the first time, with Jamie Kassler contextualizing North's work within the intellectual climate of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and Mary Chan analyzing its physical and textual characteristics.