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Good summary of important Baroque music theorist
Johann David Heinichen was (along with Johann Mattheson, Johann Gottfried Walther, Kirnberger, and J. J. Fux) one the important music theorists of the late Baroque era.His treatise primarily deals with figured-basstheory, but also reflects a summary of music theory mixed with new ideas ofthe Dresden school.Professor Buelow's book wisely selects importantportions in translation and summarizes some of the parts of lesser interestand importance.Anyone doing research inBaroque music theory should ownthis because it is a treasure trove of material for theorists.It is ascholarly volume that will not appeal to a general audience. ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: House of Saxe-Weissenfels, Johann David Heinichen, Heinrich Von Brühl, Johann Adolf I, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels, Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels, Heinrich of Saxe-Weissenfels, Count of Barby, Anna Maria of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Johann Adolf Ii, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels, Christian, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels, Magdalena Sibylle of Saxe-Weissenfels, Johann Georg, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels, Georg Albrecht of Saxe-Weissenfels, Count of Barby, Erdmann Neumeister, Joachim Wilhelm Von Brawe. Excerpt:Albrecht of Saxe-Weissenfels (b. Halle , 14 April 1659 - d. Leipzig , 9 May 1692), was a German prince of the House of Wettin .He was the fifth and youngest son of August, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels , and his first wife, Anna Maria of Mecklenburg-Schwerin .By the will of his father (1680), Albrecht only received an income from his older brother's lands.In Wertheim on 22 June 1687, Albrecht married Christine Therese of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort. Without lands of his own, the couple spend most of their time with Christine's relatives in Wertheim. They had two daughters:A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Anna Maria of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Duchess of Saxe-Weissenfels. Engraving by Johannes Frentzel, 1654.Anna Maria of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (b. Schwerin , 1 July 1627 d. Halle , 11 December 1669) was a German noblewoman, a member of the House of Mecklenburg and by marriage Duchess of Saxe-Weissenfels .She was the fourth child and second daughter of Adolf Frederick I, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin by his first wife Anna Maria , daughter of Enno III, Count of Ostfriesland . In older historiography she appears with a third name, Dorothea , but modern historians have discarded it.Life The war conflicts involving Mecklenburg forced her father to send Anna Maria and her two older brothers, C... ... Read more

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Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: William Congreve, Thomas Newcomen, John Law, Richard Steele, Elżbieta Sieniawska, Johann David Heinichen, Samuel Clarke, Leopold, Duke of Lorraine, Jean Meslier, Richard Blackmore, Kanhoji Angre, Solomon Stoddard, Abel Boyer, Pyotr Andreyevich Tolstoy, Aleksandr Danilovich Menshikov, Anthony Collins, John Ernest Iv, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Henrietta Johnston, Colen Campbell, William Conolly, Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, Ashraf Khan, Yoshizawa Ayame I, Sir Jacob Astley, 1st Baronet, William Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Devonshire, Marcantonio Franceschini, William Burnet, Alexander Montgomery, Johann Franz Buddeus, Peregrine Osborne, 2nd Duke of Leeds, Simon de La Loubère, Sebastien Truchet, Honoratus a Sancta Maria, Jakob Roggeveen, Thomas Willoughby, 1st Baron Middleton, Sir John Delaval, 3rd Baronet, Jonathan Smedley, Ernst Ludwig Ii, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, John William Iii, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach, William King, Lorenzo Cozza, Sir Robert Munro, 5th Baronet, Edward Taylor, Thomas Tufton, 6th Earl of Thanet, Sir James Long, 5th Baronet, Francisco Ximénez, Lord William Powlett, Honoré Tournély, Tobias Cohn, Panagiotis Doxaras, Francesco Bianchini, Mattheus de Haan, Charles Eyre, Thomas Pitt, 1st Earl of Londonderry, Lothar Franz Von Schönborn, John Bolling, Torii Kiyonobu I, Jean Hardouin, Louis Antoine de Noailles, Elijah Ben Solomon Abraham Ha-Kohen, Joseph Charles, Count Palatine of Sulzbach, Alessandro Specchi, Michel Baron, John Hungerford, Charles Cox, Vincent Houdry, Richard Southwell, Attilio Ariosti, Jan Claus, Stanisław Ernest Denhoff, Anna Maria Ehrenstrahl, Nicola Francesco Haym, Trịnh Cương, Sir William Lowther, 1st Baronet, of Swillington, Timothy Goodwin, Giacomo F. Maraldi, Nicolas Ravot D'ombreval, Miguel Núñez de Sanabria, Gershom Carmichael, Alexander Montg...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=26118485 ... Read more

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Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Johann David Heinichen, Heinrich von Brühl, Erdmann Neumeister, Joachim Wilhelm von Brawe,. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Johann David Heinichen (17 April 1683 - 16 July 1729) was a German Baroque composer and music theorist who brought the musical genius of Venice to the court of Augustus the Strong in Dresden. Although Heinichen's music is original, rhythmically exuberant and imaginative, it was inexplicably little known for a long time. Johann David Heinichen was born in the small village of Crössuln, near Weissenfels. His father, Michael Heinichen, had studied music at the celebrated Thomasschule Leipzig associated with the Thomaskirche, served as cantor in Pegau and was pastor of the village church in Crössuln. Johann David also attended Thomasschule Leipzig. There he studied music with Johann Schelle and later received organ and harpsichord lessons with Johann Kuhnau. The future composer Christoph Graupner was also a student of Kuhnau at the time. Heinichen enrolled in 1702 to study law at the University of Leipzig and in 1705-6 qualified as a lawyer (in the early 18th century the law was a favored route for composers; Kuhnau, Graupner and Georg Philipp Telemann were also lawyers). Heinichen practiced law in Weissenfels until 1709. However, Heinichen maintained his interest in music and was concurrently composing operas. In 1710, he published the first edition of his major treatise on the thoroughbass. He went to Italy and spent seven formative years there, mostly in Venice. In 1717, Heinichen became a colleague of Johann Sebastian Bach at the court of Leopold, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen, then went on to be Kapellmeister to the Elector of Saxony. His pupils included Johann Georg Pisendel. In 1721, Heinichen married in Weissenfels and the bir...http://booksllc.net/?l=en ... Read more

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Chapters: Albertus Magnus, Georg Philipp Telemann, Martin Agricola, Athanasius Kircher, Johann David Heinichen, Lorenz Christoph Mizler, Rutgerus Sycamber, Justin Heinrich Knecht, Johann Gottfried Walther, Cyrill Kistler, Franco of Cologne, Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg, Johannes Nucius, Christoph Demantius, Hermann Abert, Johann Andreas Herbst, Gallus Dressler, Johann Mattheson, N. Senada, Moritz Hauptmann, Girolamo Diruta, Jakob Adlung, Johann Christoph Kellner, Johann Nikolaus Forkel, Winfried Zillig, Andreas Werckmeister, Franz Xaver Murschhauser, Hermann of Reichenau, Herman the Cripple, Johann Kirnberger, Gottfried Weber, Johann Christian Lobe, Siegfried Dehn, Hugo Riemann, Sethus Calvisius, Johannes Galliculus, Friedrich Suppig, Henricus Grammateus, Adam of Fulda, Ernst Richter, Heinrich Faber, Hermann Finck, Heinrich Bellermann. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 159. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Athanasius Kircher (16021680) (sometimes erroneously spelled Kirchner) was a 17th century German Jesuit scholar who published around 40 works, most notably in the fields of oriental studies, geology, and medicine. Kircher has been compared to fellow Jesuit Roger Boscovich and to Leonardo da Vinci for his enormous range of interests, and has been honoured with the title "master of a hundred arts". Kircher was the most famous "decipherer" of hieroglyphs of his day, although most of his assumptions and "translations" in this field have since been disproved as nonsensical. However, he did make an early study of Egyptian hieroglyphs, correctly establishing the link between the ancient Egyptian language and the Coptic language, for which he has been considered the founder of Egyptology. He was also fascinated with Sinology, and wrote an encyclopedia of China, in which he noted the early pre...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=93815 ... Read more

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