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Jean-Jacques ROUSSEAU

Dissertation sur la musique moderne

Chez G. F. Quillau, à Paris 1743, In-8 (12,5x20cm), (2) xvj, 101pp. (3), relié.

first edition, rare. A general folding table of all tones and keys in fine.

Binding in full speckled brown sheepskin. Ornate nerved back. title label of red morocco. 3 blunt corners. Dark spots on the boards. Discreet restorations, Contemporary binding.
In 1742 Rousseau published a Project concerning new signs for music (1742) in which he proposed to revolutionize the system of musical notation, considered too complex. The Royal Academy of Sciences will be reluctant, which is why Rousseau perseveres and then offers his Dissertation on modern music , more complete and theoretical. Rousseau thus makes the apology in his preface of his system of notation intended to replace the old: "It is easy to justify by experience, that one learns Music in two & three times less time by my method than by the ordinary method, that the Musicians trained by it, will be safer than the others with equal science, and that finally its facility is such that when one would like to stick to ordinary Music, it would always be necessary to begin with the mine, to achieve that, more surely & in less time. "
At the end of the work, Rousseau gives the example of the minuet of Dardanus de Rameau in the new notation.

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