Werckmeister's Musicalische Paradoxal-Discourse (1707)

From the translator of Andreas Werckmeister's Cribrum musicum (1700) and Harmonologia musica (1702), this first translation---published before Dietrich Bartel's---of Werckmeister's final opus, Musicalische Paradoxal-Discourse (1707), contains both the German original as well as a translation with commentary. The book represents the renowned theorist's ideas in their most developed form, building on all of his previous work. The primary topics are: musical temperament, the divine origin and purpose of music, music notation, and musical numerology and theology.