John Wallis : writings on music / edited by David Cram and Benjamin Wardhaugh. - Farnham : Ashgate, 2014. - 239 pages ; 24 cm. - Music theory in Britain, 1500 - 1700: critical editions . - Music theory in Britain, 1500 - 1700: critical editions .

Includes bibliographical references and index

Cont.: Introduction; Letters to Henry Oldenburg, May 1664; Letters to Henry Oldenburg, March 1677; 'The harmonics of the ancients compared with today's': appendix to Ptolemy's Harmonics, 1682; Notice of Wallis's edition of Ptolemy's Harmonics in the Philosophical Transactions, January 1683; 'A question in musick', Philosophical Transactions March 1698; A letter to Samuel Pepys, June 1698; Letters to Andrew Fletcher, August 1698; Select Bibliography; Index.

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Wallis, John, 1616-1703


Music theory--History