Étienne Loulié
Étienne Loulié (* 1654 in Paris ; † July 16, 1702 ) was a French musician, educator and music theorist.
Around 1693 to 1673 Loulie learned musical practice and music theory as a choirboy at the Sainte-Chapelle in Paris, where he was a student of Gèhenaud and René d'Ouvrard . He later worked as a musician in the service of Mademoiselle de Guise .
Loulié is the real inventor of the metronome . His Chronomètre had a lead swinging on a thread and a scale with 72 different degrees of speed. Its invention may be based on an earlier idea by Thomas Mace .
Loulié also constructed a device to make it easier to draw music lines and a sonomètre , a kind of monochord that could be used as an aid to piano tuning. All three devices met with approval from the Paris Académie des Sciences .
Fonts
- Éléments ou Principes de musique mis dans un nouvel ordre (Paris, 1696), with illustration and description of the chonometer
- Abrégé des principes de musique, avec leçons sur chaque difficulté de ces mesmes principes (Paris 1696)
- Nouveau système de musique ou nouvelle division du monocorde [...] avec la description et l'usage du sonomètre (Paris, 1698), with an explanation of the sonometer
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| SURNAME | Loulié, Étienne |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French musician, educator and music theorist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1654 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 16, 1702 |