A Musical Dictionary; Being a Collection of Terms and Characters, as Well Ancient as Modern; Including the Historical, Theoretical, and Practical Parts of Music : ... the Whole Carefully Abstracted fr

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. The eighteenth-century fascination with Greek and Roman antiquity followed the systematic excavation of the ruins at Pompeii and Herculaneum in southern Italy; and after 1750 a neoclassical style dominated all artistic fields. The titles here trace developments in mostly English-language works on painting, sculpture, architecture, music, theater, and other disciplines. Instructional works on musical instruments, catalogs of art objects, comic operas, and more are also included. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T135522 In fact a translation of the 'Dictionnaire de musique' by Sbastien de Brossard. Printer's name from colophon. With a half-title. In this issue, the first word of the title is over the "i" of "dictionary", and the "J" in the imprint is over "h" of "Chu London : printed [by C. Jephson] for J. Wilcox, 1740. xii,347,[1]p.,plates : music,engr.music ; 8