Thomas Salmon: Writings on Music: Volume II: A Proposal to Perform Musick and Related Writings, 1685-1706 Wardhaugh Benjamin
Thomas Salmon: Writings on Music: Volume II: A Proposal to Perform Musick and Related Writings, 1685-1706 Wardhaugh Benjamin This is the second volume in a two-part set on the writings of Thomas…
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Thomas Salmon: Writings on Music: Volume II: A Proposal to Perform Musick and Related Writings, 1685-1706 Wardhaugh Benjamin
This is the second volume in a two-part set on the writings of Thomas Salmon. Salmon proposed a radical reform of musical notation, involving a new set of clefs which he claimed, and Locke denied, would make learning and performing music much easier (these writings are the subject of Volume I). Salmon (1647-1706) is remembered today for the fury with which Matthew Locke greeted his first foray into musical writing, the Essay to the Advancement of Musick (1672), and the near-farcical level to which the subsequent pamphlet dispute quickly descended.
He made or renewed contact with instrument-makers and performers in London, with the mathematician John Wallis, with Isaac Newton and with the Royal Society of London through its Secretary Hans Sloane. Later in his life Salmon devoted his attention to an exploration of the possible reform of musical pitch. A series of manuscript treatises and