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BAYLY (ANSELM): A Practical Treatise on Singing and Playing With Just Expression and Real Elegance. Being an Essay on I. Grammar. II. Pronunciation; or, The Art of Just Speaking. III. Singing - Its Graces - Their Application. - On Cathedral Compositions.
London: Printed for J. Ridley..., 1771. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. v [vi blank], 16, 99 [100 blank], in a soiled blue 19th century wrapper, with "O. S. Williams's Book/July 22, 1835" inscribed on front cover; title-page soiled and slightly creased, first three leaves detached from rest of text. Bayly (1718/19 - 1794), a Church of England clergyman, wrote several works on philology, speech, metre, and rhythm, including what is probably his best-known work, The Alliance of Musick, Poetry and Oratory (1789). In this work, the chapter on singing takes us most of the last half of the book, while the guidelines on pronunciation give a fairly exact idea of how very different 18th century pronunciation of most words would have sounded to 21st century ears. See also the commentary by Robert Toft, "Rendering the Sense More Conspicuous: Grammatical and Rhetorical Principles of Vocal Phrasing in Art and Popular/Jazz Music," Music and Letters (2004: 85, 3; 368-387). ESTC T13167 locates copies in the BL, Bodleian, Cambridge; McMaster, Yale (2), Huntington, UC Berkeley, Library of Congress, Indiana State University Cunningham Memorial Library, Harvard, Rochester (Rhees Library).
Offered for GBP 440.00 = appr. US$ 719.84 by: John Price Antiquarian Books - Book number: 5557
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