Source Readings in Music History 1 Volume Rev

Notes and Abbreviations xiii Introduction 3(12) I The Practice of Composition: Measure and Phrase From Fundamentals of Musical Composition 15(13) Joseph Riepel From The Art of Strict Musical Composition 28(15) Johann Philipp Kirnberger From Introductory Essay on Composition 43(22) Heinrich Christoph Koch II The Practice of Composition: Movement and Work From Essay on a Method for Playing the Transverse Flute 65(8) Johann Joachim Quantz From Introductory Essay on Composition 73(12) Heinrich Christoph Koch From Theoretical-Practical Elements of Music 85(7) Francesco Galeazzi From A Complete Course of Harmony and Composition 92(25) Jerome-Joseph de Momigny III Performance Practices From Essay on the Proper Manner of Playing a Keyboard Instrument 117(5) Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach From Essay on the Fundamental Principles of Violin Playing 122(9) Leopold Mozart From Practical Reflections on Singing 131(10) Giambattista Mancini From School of Clavier Playing 141(20) Daniel Gottlob Turk IV Critical Views of French and Italian Opera From Letter on French Music 161(14) Jean-Jacques Rousseau From An Essay on the Opera 175(13) Francesco Algarotti From Rameau's Nephew 188(10) Denis Diderot From Dedication for Alceste 198(3) Christoph Willibald Gluck From A Defense of Modern Music and Its Distinguished Practitioners 201(10) Vincenzo Manfredini V Expression and Sensibility From Essay on the Origin of Languages, Which Treats of Melody and Musical Imitation 211(9) Jean-Jacques Rousseau From On Painting in Music 220(11) Johann Jakob Engel From Letter to His Father 231(5) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart From On Music Considered in Itself and in Its Relations with Speech, Language, Poetry, and the Theater 236(10) Michel-Paul-Guy de Chabanon From Letters on Rousseau 246(3) Germaine de Stael From British Synonymy 249(6) Hester Lynch Piozzi VI Diarists and Historians From The Present State of Music in France and Italy 255(10) Charles Burney From Letter-Journal, 1779--80 265(13) Susannah Burney From A General History of Music 278(17) Johann Nikolaus Forkel From Personal Letters Written on a Trip to Vienna 295(14) Johann Friedrich Reichardt Index 309