E315 -- Du veritable caractere de la musique moderne
(Concerning the true character of modern music)
Summary:
According to C.
G. J. Jacobi, a treatise with this title was presented to the Berlin Academy on November 1 and
22, 1764.
Publication:
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Originally published in Memoires de l'academie des sciences de Berlin 20, 1766, pp. 174-199
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Opera Omnia: Series 3, Volume 1, pp. 516 - 539
- Reprinted in OEuvres complètes d’Euler [E315a]
- Republished as Euler, Musique mathématique, Paris 1865, pp. 225-251 [E315b]
Documents Available:
- Original publication: E315
- E315 can be viewed or downloaded from Digitalisierte Akademieschriften und Schriften zur Geschichte der Königlich Preußischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, which includes serial publications of the Prussian Academy of Science in the 18th and 19th Centuries.
- The Euler Archive attempts to monitor current scholarship for articles and books that may be of interest to Euler Scholars. Selected references we have found that discuss or cite E315 include:
- Muzzulini D., “Euler, Leonhard Theory of consonance.” Musiktheorie, 9 (2), pp. 135-146 (1994).
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