Antiquae Musicae Auctores Septem. Graece et Latine. Restuit ac Notis explicavit
by MEIBOM (Marcus):
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Amstelodami, Apud Ludovicum Elzvirium, 1652. FIRST EDITION. 2 volumes in 1. Thick 4to, 215 x 158 mms., pp. [lii], 132, [4], 68, [4], 60, [4] 5 - 8, 80, [4], 40, [4], 36; [viii], 363 [364 blank], both title-pages in red and black, printed in double columns, text in Greek and Latin, and with woodcut printer's device, 5 folding letterpress tables, of which 4 are printed in red and black, woodcut musical annotation, diagrams and decorative initials, contemporary mottled calf, expertly rebacked, with raised bands between gilt rules, red morocco label; some occasional staining but a very good copy of this remarkabled work. Marcus Meibomius (c. 1630, Tönningen 1710/1711, Utrecht) was a Danish scholar, probably He is best known as a historian of music, as an antiquarian, and as the first librarian at the Denmark's Royal Library. He was also a philologist and mathematician. The present book, on antique Greeek music, and "It printed works, in Greek originals with Latin translation, by Aristoxenos, Cleonides (though attributed to Euclid), Gaudentius, Nicomachus, Alypius, Bacchius, and Aristides Quintilianus (supported by Martianus Capella). It is now seen as pioneer scholarship, not supplanted until the twentieth century, and largely comprehensive on the topic. He attempted concert performances reconstructing Greek music" Wikipedia. Hagel Stefan, and Christine Harrauer, Ancient Greek Music in Performance: Symposion Wien 29. Sept-1. Okt. 2003.
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- Antiquae Musicae Auctores Septem. Graece et Latine. Restuit ac Notis explicavit
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- MEIBOM (Marcus):
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- Hardcover
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- Amstelodami, Apud Ludovicum Elzvirium, 1652
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