I created score editions of Henry Purcell’s Ten Sonatas of Four Parts and Twelve Sonatas of Three Parts. These scores were transcribed from the original parts published in 1683 and 1697.
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Email: wcm at sigwinch dot xyzzy minus the zy
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You can usually find me (Wolfgang/Zipheir) on IRC in the #scheme channel on libera.chat.
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Zarlino has very exalted ideas of the qualifications requisite to a complete musician, and tells us, that it is necessary he should have a knowledge in Arithmetic for the calculation of musical proportions; of Geometry, to measure them; of the Monochord and Harpsichord, to try experiments and effects; that he should be able to Tune instruments, in order to accustom the ear to distinguish and judge of intervals; that he should Sing with truth and taste, and perfectly understand Counterpoint; that he should be a Grammarian, in order to write correctly, and set words with propriety; that he should read History, to know the progress of his art; be a master of Logic, to reason upon, and investigate the more abstruse parts of it; and of Rhetoric, to express his thoughts with precision; and further, that he would do well to add to these sciences some acquaintance with Natural Philosophy, and the Philosophy of Sound; that his ears being perfectly exercised and purified, may not be easily decieved.
--Charles Burney, A General History of Music, vol. 2