Essais sur les principes de l'harmonie
- Type:
- boek
- Titel:
- Essais sur les principes de l'harmonie
- Jaar:
- 1753
- URL:
- https://gallica.bnf.fr/view3if/ga/ark:/12148/bpt6k9675663b IIIF
- Onderwerp:
- 18th Century (1701-1800)
Music theory
Harmony
France - Taal:
- Frans
- Uitgever:
- Paris Prault 1753
- Plaatsnummer:
- ORPH.KTS1 C1.24 15H14 (Orpheus Instituut)
- Paginering:
- [viii]-206 pages
- Editie:
- 1st ed.
- Nota:
- Published during the Querelle des Bouffons by a painter, physicist, chemist and musical theorist whom Burney met in Geneva
Serre studied painting at the academy of Geneva, and at the university, after studying natural sciences, defended a thesis in physics under the direction of Jean-Louis Calandrini. He worked as a miniaturist in Marseille, Vienna and Paris, where he settled in 1751. He published several articles in the Mercure de France which he reused in his Essais sur les principes de l'harmonie in 1753, entering into debate with Charles-Henri Blainville, Rameau and Leonhard Euler. In 1756, he stayed in London and returned to Geneva where he published his Observations sur les principes de l'harmonie [...] in 1763: he challenged the musical theories developed by d'Alembert in the article "Fondamental" in the Encyclopédie, the 'Trattato di musica secondo la vera scienza dell'armonia' by Giuseppe Tartini and the 'Dictionaire harmonique' by Francesco Geminiani.
It was translated and commented on in German by Johann Adam Hiller in 1767 and quoted several times in Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Dictionnaire de musique. - Permalink:
- https://cageweb.be/catalog/orp01:000003694