Roger North

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Roger North

Roger North ( September 3, 1653 , † March 1, 1734 ) was an English lawyer , biographer and music theorist . He was the sixth son of Dudley North, 4th Baron North .

Life

Roger North acquired good legal knowledge in the bar, with the assistance of his brother Francis , who later became Lord Chancellor . In 1684 North became general solicitor . The civil war ended its rise. He retired to his Rougham estate in Norfolk and married. The family of the Norths of Rougham descends from him.

North collected books and was a writer. His best known works are Lives of the Norths , published posthumously with his autobiography Notes of me ; the latter is considered a reliable historical source. Above all, his comments on musical performance practice were of great musical historical value for research into English baroque music . North also wrote about musical aesthetics and pedagogy and questions of mood . One of his most important achievements in this area was the theoretical and practical design of a mean- tone tuning before the age of equal-scale tuning .

Work editions

  • John Wilson (Ed.): Roger North on music. Being a selection from his essays written during the years c. 1695-1728 . Novello, London 1959
  • Howard Montagu Colvin, John Newman (Eds.): Of building. Roger North's writings on architecture . Clarendon, Oxford 1981, ISBN 0-19-817325-3
  • Mary Chan (Ed.): Roger North's Cursory notes of musicke . Unisearch, Kensington (New South Wales) 1986, ISBN 0-85823-279-0
  • Mary Chan (Ed.): The musicall grammarian . University Press, Cambridge 1990
  • Peter Millard (Ed.): Notes of me. The autobiography of Roger North . University of Toronto Press, Toronto 2000, ISBN 0-8020-4471-9
  • Roger North: Memoirs of Musick . George Bell, London 1846. Reprinted by Olms, Hildesheim 2004, ISBN 3-487-11989-7

literature

  • Franciscus Korsten: Roger north. Virtuoso and essayist . Dissertation. APA-Holland University Press, Amsterdam 1981, ISBN 90-302-1234-9
  • Jamie C. Kassler: Inner music. Hobbes, Hooke and North on internal character . Athlone, London 1995, ISBN 0-485-11407-0
personal data
SURNAME North, Roger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English lawyer, biographer and music theorist
DATE OF BIRTH September 3, 1653
DATE OF DEATH March 1, 1734