Author: LA BORDE, Jean-Benjamin de.
Title: Essai sur la musique ancienne et moderne.Paris, printed by Denys Pierres and sold by Eugène Onfroy, 1780-1781. 4 volumes. 4to. With 463 engraved plates (including several folding), 3 folding letterpress tables, an engraved vignette on each title-page, letterpress music notes, and numerous engraved head- and tailpieces. Including: Mémoires sur les proportions musicales, le genre énamonique des Grecs et celui des modernes ... Supplément a l'essai sur la musiqueContemporary gold-tooled calf.
Description: Very rare first edition of a wide-ranging account of music, finely illustrated and including complete compositions by Claude le Jeune, Lassus, Ronsard and several others. It "remains an extremely valuable source of information on 18th-century music, as well as that of earlier periods and its historiography" (Fend). La Borde, a popular composer, writer and farm tax collector, assembled a vast amount of information on music, both European and non-European. The first volume describes the music and musical instruments of different countries and cultures. Volumes 2-4 are devoted to composition and songs and the supplement describes harmony and proportion, concluding with the engraved text and music of a song, with the several parts ("basse", "taille" and "haute contre") engraved separately.Jean-Benjamin de La Borde (1734-1794) studied the violin with Dauvergne and composition with the great Jean-Philippe Rameau. He composed many "opéras comiques" and wrote a number of books on topography, music, history and literature, but he is best remembered as the author of the present encyclopaedic work on music.In very good condition. A renowned work on music, attractively bound in contemporary calf.l Cat. biblioth. Fétis 3195; Cohen 538; Fétis II, 26; Honegger II, 682; RISM B, VII, p. 466; Gregory, Cat. early books on music, p. 142: for La Borde: Fend, "La Borde, Jean-Benjamin de", in: Grove Music Online.
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Title: Essai sur la musique ancienne et moderne.Paris, printed by Denys Pierres and sold by Eugène Onfroy, 1780-1781. 4 volumes. 4to. With 463 engraved plates (including several folding), 3 folding letterpress tables, an engraved vignette on each title-page, letterpress music notes, and numerous engraved head- and tailpieces. Including: Mémoires sur les proportions musicales, le genre énamonique des Grecs et celui des modernes ... Supplément a l'essai sur la musiqueContemporary gold-tooled calf.
Description: Very rare first edition of a wide-ranging account of music, finely illustrated and including complete compositions by Claude le Jeune, Lassus, Ronsard and several others. It "remains an extremely valuable source of information on 18th-century music, as well as that of earlier periods and its historiography" (Fend). La Borde, a popular composer, writer and farm tax collector, assembled a vast amount of information on music, both European and non-European. The first volume describes the music and musical instruments of different countries and cultures. Volumes 2-4 are devoted to composition and songs and the supplement describes harmony and proportion, concluding with the engraved text and music of a song, with the several parts ("basse", "taille" and "haute contre") engraved separately.Jean-Benjamin de La Borde (1734-1794) studied the violin with Dauvergne and composition with the great Jean-Philippe Rameau. He composed many "opéras comiques" and wrote a number of books on topography, music, history and literature, but he is best remembered as the author of the present encyclopaedic work on music.In very good condition. A renowned work on music, attractively bound in contemporary calf.l Cat. biblioth. Fétis 3195; Cohen 538; Fétis II, 26; Honegger II, 682; RISM B, VII, p. 466; Gregory, Cat. early books on music, p. 142: for La Borde: Fend, "La Borde, Jean-Benjamin de", in: Grove Music Online.
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Price: EUR 14000.00 = appr. US$ 15215.86 Seller: A. Asher & Co. B.V.
- Book number: ABC_48601
- Book number: ABC_48601