Project Concerning New Symbols for Music
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques / Rainbow, Bernarr
(orig Fr: Projet Concernant de Nouveaux Signes pour la Musique, 1742)Rousseau, one of the most influential thinkers of 18th-century France, marked his arrival in Paris by reading to the Academie des Sciences a paper in which he presented a new system of musical notation. His proposals were to form the basis of the 19th-century method of teaching music devised by Pierre Galin and his associates. Rousseau's own publication, here reprinted, is in...