by Claude V. Palisca (Editor), Benito V. Rivera (Translator), Joachim Burmeister (Author)
Joachim Burmeister's 17th-century treatise on the making of music is generally acknowledged to be central to the understanding of Baroque music practice. This edition reviews Burmeister's two earlier treatises on musical composition and analyzes "Musical Poetics" as a whole.
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 372
Edition: Annotated
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 02 Aug 1993
ISBN 10: 0300051107
ISBN 13: 9780300051100