Roger North's the Musicall Grammarian 1728 (Cambridge Studies in Music) (Pbk Version)

Roger North's The Musicall Grammarian 1728 is a 1990 treatise on musical eloquence in all its branches. Of its five parts, I and II, on the orthoepy, orthography and syntax of music, constitute a grammar; III and IV, on the arts of invention and communication, form a rhetoric; and V, on etymology, consists of a history.