[CHOQUEL, Henri-Louis]
La musique rendue sensible par la méchanique, ou Nouveau système pour apprendre facilement la musique soi-même. Ouvrage utile et curieux.
Paris, Christophe Ballard, 1762.
8vo, contemporary full leather binding, title piece and decorations to spine, [6] + 19 + 14 + 213 + [1] + [4] pp., 2 folding plates, musical scores in text; nice copy, wear to spine extremities, light rubbing and scuffing to binding
Second edition, three years after the first edition of 1759. In this work Henri Louis Choquel (1702 – 1767) presents the pendulum-metronome, a mechanical device by which a student learns time-beating patterns by tracing his hand along a rope. Choquel’s instrument was the earliest mechanical device to correlate time-beatings physically with musical activity. Nice copy of this early do-it-yourself manual for aspiring musicians in the Baroque era.
