Anweisung zum Generalbassspielen ... Dritte, verbesserte Auflage
- Halle: Hemmerde und Schwetschke, 1816
Halle: Hemmerde und Schwetschke, 1816. Octavo. Contemporary marbled boards. 1f. (recto title, verso blank), x (foreword), 390 pp. With numerous musical examples.
Small ownership signature "G.M. Klein" to title; contemporary manuscript note to free front endpaper regarding cost of book and binding; notes to recto of free rear endpaper regarding Greek modes.
Binding slightly worn, rubbed, and bumped. Light uniform browning.
In very good condition overall. Third edition, revised.
Turk, a German theorist and composer, became director of music at Halle University in 1779, lecturing on theory and composition.
"Turk's Klavierschule (1789) was, for late eighteenth-century readers, an unsurpassed source of practical wisdom. ... Equally clear and vivid, though less celebrated is [his] Kurze Anweisung sum Generalbassspielen (1791), which systematically addresses the declining art of figured-bass realization. ... The work elucidates the notation of the figures and contains examples of many individual chord types." Damschroder and Williams p. 362.
Small ownership signature "G.M. Klein" to title; contemporary manuscript note to free front endpaper regarding cost of book and binding; notes to recto of free rear endpaper regarding Greek modes.
Binding slightly worn, rubbed, and bumped. Light uniform browning.
In very good condition overall. Third edition, revised.
Turk, a German theorist and composer, became director of music at Halle University in 1779, lecturing on theory and composition.
"Turk's Klavierschule (1789) was, for late eighteenth-century readers, an unsurpassed source of practical wisdom. ... Equally clear and vivid, though less celebrated is [his] Kurze Anweisung sum Generalbassspielen (1791), which systematically addresses the declining art of figured-bass realization. ... The work elucidates the notation of the figures and contains examples of many individual chord types." Damschroder and Williams p. 362.