De la musique considérée en elle-même et dans ses rapports avec la parole, les langues la poésie, et le théatre - Chabanon, Michel Paul Gui de 1730-1792 (Paris Pissot, 1785)
Michel-Paul Guy de Chabanon (Saint-Domingue, 1730-10 June 1792, Paris) was a violinist, composer, music theorist, and connoisseur of French literature. He was elected to the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres (1760) and the Académie française (1779). His double identity as a writer and a musician gave him a unique viewpoint on the links between music and language and in developing a philosophy of music of which his work was the expression. He also contributed to defining opera as a musical genre.
In the 'Réflexions préliminaires', Chabanon considers this book as an extension of his earlier 'Observations sur la musique, et principalement sur la métaphysique de l'art' (1779; see 15G24a)
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Keywords: 18th Century (1701-1800); Music philosophy and esthetics; Linguistics; Paris (France)