A MUSICAL DICTIONARY;; Being a collection of terms and characters, as well ancient as modern including the historical, theoretical and practical parts of Music: As also an explination of some parts of the doctorine of the ancients; interspersed with remarks on their method and practice and curious observations on the phoenomena of Sound, mathematically considered, as its relations and proportions constitute intervals, and those again Concords and Discours.
London: J. Wilcox, 1740. First Edition. 8vo, pp. xii, 347, (1). With 4 engraved plates. Bound with the half-title in modern half-calf, some foxing and minor stains, a very good tight copy. RISM, Excrits 375; Vancil 35 (ascribing the work to Sebastien de Brossard. Item #39142
Much of the material in this work derives from the work of the French musicologist, Sebastien de Brossard, as well as other contemporary sources. “While Grassineau’s Dictionary awaits serious studies in textual criticism, it can be said to be the most important dictionary of music published in Britain until the translation of Rousseau. In 1769, after Grassineau’s death [in 1767], it was reissued with a separate appendix containing articles from Rousseau’s dictionary; the editor is unknown” (New Grove).
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