A Briefe and Short Instruction of the Art of Musicke by Elway Bevin |
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| Editor:
| Collins, Denis |
| Series title: | Music Theory in Britain, 1500-1700: Critical Editions Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7546-5053-9 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2007 |
| Publisher: | Routledge
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $175.00 |
Book Description:
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A Briefe and Short Introduction (1631) is one of about a dozen late sixteenth and early seventeenth-century English music instruction books that go beyond the absolute basics for beginners, and it is the only member of the published English theoretical writings dealing with the art of singing and elementary counterpoint that has not existed in a published modern edition until now. The topic most extensively treated in the book is the composition of 'all sorts of canons' on a plainsong...
More DescriptionA Briefe and Short Introduction (1631) is one of about a dozen late sixteenth and early seventeenth-century English music instruction books that go beyond the absolute basics for beginners, and it is the only member of the published English theoretical writings dealing with the art of singing and elementary counterpoint that has not existed in a published modern edition until now. The topic most extensively treated in the book is the composition of 'all sorts of canons' on a plainsong which goes byeond anything found on canon in other English theoretical writings. Bevin's legacy in this treatise is the exposition of the art of canon in a systematic arrangement suitable for students of this discipline, with a thorough presentation of procedures and tehcniques that occupied the attention of many musicians in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. His work was read widely in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and was quoted or commented upon by Playford, Purcell, Simpson, Burney and Kollmann.