Nouvel Essai sur L'Hannonie, Suite du Trait‚ de Musique, D‚di‚ a Monseigneur Le Duc dc Chartres, Prince du Sang. Par M. Bemetzrieder.
A Paris. chez L'Auteur, rue Neuve S. Roch, pres celle des Moineaux. Et chez Onfroy, Libraire, Quai des Augustins, au Lys d'or. M.DCC.LXXD. (1779). 8vo, 20cm, 286p., in contemporary quarter brown morocco, blind and gilt ruled raised bands, gilt titles, marbled boards and endpapers, title vignette, engraved head and tail-pieces, approbation dated 1780. Fine (ds1). Item #41338
~ Bemetzrieder was born in Alsace and came to Paris at a young age. He entered a Benedictine monastery, but left the order, and became music teacher to philosopher Denis Diderot's daughter Angelica. Following his classical work Lecons de Clavecin, which was edited by Diderot, this essay discusses "the science of tones and harmonies, consonance and dissonance, and the principle elements of musical composition " (t.p. verso). Publisher Eugene Onfroy was active in Paris from 1772-1809.
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