Biographical and Bibliographical Checklist of Principal Works Related to Western Music Published During the Long Eighteenth Century (1660-1820)

This checklist of writers and their works, as well as the complementary biographical and bibliographical information, has been compiled to add dimension to the mural of intense and significant musical activity that occurred from 1660-1820. The 1100 entries on this list range from such subjects as accentuation, basso continuo, and church music through mathematics, musical terms, notation, and orchestrations, to plainchant, rhythm, sight singing, theory, and thorough bass. The variety of figures range from the major and minor composers and theorists to the insignificant and obscure. The people, the important biographical details of their careers, and the titles and descriptions of their works are gathered, attempting to display the threads of the earliest attempts to establish the discipline of musicology.Samuel J. Rogal is the author of 'Biographical and Bibliographical Checklist of Principal Works Related to Western Music Published During the Long Eighteenth Century (1660-1820)' with ISBN 9780773468832 and ISBN 0773468838.