Essai sur la musique ancienne et moderne - La Borde, Jean-Benjamin de 1734-1794 (Paris Onfroy, 1780)
Vol. 1/1=01E08 (livre 1) deals with music in general, its categories, history, and gestures, as well as with music among the Chinese, Hungarians, Persians, Turks and Arabs; engravings at pages 275 and 343
vol. 1/2=01E08 (livre 2) deals with instruments; categories: church music, Russian music, opera
vol. 2/1=01E09 (livre 3) = 'abrégé d'un traité de composition' with hundreds of examples from the 16th and 17th centuries
vol. 2/2=01E09 (livre 4) deals with chansons
vol. 3=01E10 (livre 5) deals with famous poets, musicians and composers in Greco-Roman Antiquity, Italy and France
vol. 4 (livre 6) deals with French lyric poets and has annexes about Machaut and others
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