New and Rare Acquisitions at the Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies (2002)

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I. Rare Books (in chronological order)

James Grassineau. A Musical Dictionary; Being a Collection of Terms and Characters, As well Ancient as Modern; including the Historical, Theoretical, and Practical Parts of Music: As also, an Explanation of some Parts of the Doctrine of the Antients; Interspersed with remarks on their Method and Practice, and curious Observations on the Phoenomena of Sound Mathematically considered, As it's Relations and Proportions constitute Intervals, And those again Concords and Discords. The whole carefully abstractedfrom the best Authors in the Greek, Latin, Italian, French, and English Languages. London: J. Wilcox, 1740. 348 pp. Octavo format. A …