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Bowman's-Weitzman's Manual of Musical Theory

Music Theory in Seventeenth-century England

Thus, over the course of the seventeenth century, there occurred a complete transformation in almost every aspect of theory: by the 1720s, many of the principles being described bore close relation to those still used today. Nowhere was this metamorphosis clearer than in England where, because of a traditional emphasis on practicality, there was much more willingness to accept and encourage new theoretical ideas than on the continent.

A text-book of musical theory, forming pt. 1 of The student's text-book of the science of music