MUSIC - EXIMENO Y PUJADES, Antonio (1729-1808). Dell'origine e delle regole della musica. Rome: Michelangelo Barbiellini, 1774. 4° (263 x 194mm). Title with engraved vignette, engraved portrait of dedicatee and 10 head-pieces by G. Brunetti after F. Arnaudies, 22 ENGRAVED FOLDING PLATES mainly of music, letterpress folding 'Tavola de' Modi'. (Occasional slight staining, one or two pages lightly browned.) Contemporary vellum, spine lettered in gilt, marbled edges (corners slightly bumped, back cover lightly soiled). Olschki Choix 10926 (gives only 6 head-pieces); Fétis III, 166-7. Antonio EXIMENO Y PUJADES. Dubbio di D. Antonio Eximeno sopra il saggio fondamentale pratico di contrappunto del Reverendissimo Padre Maestro Giambattista Martini. Rome: Michelangelo Barbiellini, 1775. 4° (262 x 196mm). Title with woodcut ornament, woodcut head- and tailpieces and historiated initials. (L-O slightly browned, more heavily in O.) Contemporary marbled boards (spine faded, very slight worm damage to joints). Olschki Choix 11111; Fétis III, 167. FIRST EDITIONS of both works. Eximeno was a Jesuit and professor of mathematics and of music at the military academy of Segovia. On the expulsion of the Jesuits from Spain, he settled in Rome, so that all his major works were first published in Italian. (The Spanish translation of Dell' origine did not appear until 1796.) In this work, he proposed to abolish the strict laws of counterpoint and harmony, and instead apply the rules of prosody to composition. In the Dubbio , he attacked the Bolognese composer and theorist Giovanni Battista Martini, who believed that the theory of music should have a scientific foundation, based on a study of mathematics. (2)
MUSIC - EXIMENO Y PUJADES, Antonio (1729-1808). Dell'origine e delle regole della musica. Rome: Michelangelo Barbiellini, 1774. 4° (263 x 194mm). Title with engraved vignette, engraved portrait of dedicatee and 10 head-pieces by G. Brunetti after F. Arnaudies, 22 ENGRAVED FOLDING PLATES mainly of music, letterpress folding 'Tavola de' Modi'. (Occasional slight staining, one or two pages lightly browned.) Contemporary vellum, spine lettered in gilt, marbled edges (corners slightly bumped, back cover lightly soiled). Olschki Choix 10926 (gives only 6 head-pieces); Fétis III, 166-7. Antonio EXIMENO Y PUJADES. Dubbio di D. Antonio Eximeno sopra il saggio fondamentale pratico di contrappunto del Reverendissimo Padre Maestro Giambattista Martini. Rome: Michelangelo Barbiellini, 1775. 4° (262 x 196mm). Title with woodcut ornament, woodcut head- and tailpieces and historiated initials. (L-O slightly browned, more heavily in O.) Contemporary marbled boards (spine faded, very slight worm damage to joints). Olschki Choix 11111; Fétis III, 167. FIRST EDITIONS of both works. Eximeno was a Jesuit and professor of mathematics and of music at the military academy of Segovia. On the expulsion of the Jesuits from Spain, he settled in Rome, so that all his major works were first published in Italian. (The Spanish translation of Dell' origine did not appear until 1796.) In this work, he proposed to abolish the strict laws of counterpoint and harmony, and instead apply the rules of prosody to composition. In the Dubbio , he attacked the Bolognese composer and theorist Giovanni Battista Martini, who believed that the theory of music should have a scientific foundation, based on a study of mathematics. (2)
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