Thomas Mace

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Thomas Mace (* around 1613 in Cambridge , † allegedly 1709 ) was an English musician and music writer.

He was a singer (clerk) at Trinity College in Cambridge, stayed in York in 1644 , returned to Cambridge from 1647 and is most recently traceable in London around 1690 , where he - fallen into poverty due to deafness - sold his library and instruments.

Mace wrote his main work Musick's Monument from 1672 (published in London in 1676). In his three books he dealt with church music, lute and viola as well as consort music. The precise information about the English music making practice around 1650 is important. He also reported on his own attempts at making instruments.

In order to maintain a precise tempo when making music, Mace (twenty years before Louliè ) suggested the use of a thread pendulum and can thus be regarded as the intellectual ancestor of the metronome .

Apart from the instrumental pieces in Musicks' Monument , only a few lute pieces and an anthem (handwritten) are known from him .

literature

Works

  • Thomas Mace, Andrew Shepard-Smith (Editor): The Complete Anthology of Lute Music from Musick's Donumen 1676, (Google Books) , Mel Bay Pubn Inc., 2005, ISBN 0-7866-5968-8

Work edition

  • Musick's Monument, facsimile, Paris 1958.

Secondary literature

  • H. Watson: Thomas Mace , Proceedings of the Musical Association XXXV, 1908/09, with the publication of plays;
  • Henry Watson, Emil Brauer (translation): Thomas Mace. The English lutenist Thomas Mace. The man, the book & his instruments, 1910
  • O. Kinkeldey: Thomas Mace and His Tattle de Moy , in: A Birthday Offering to C. Engel, New York 1943
  • J. Jacquot: Musick's Monument , Revue de Musicologie XXXIV, 1952 (= Tome XXXI)
  • ED Mackerness: Thomas Mace, Additions to a Biographie , The Monthly Musical Record LXXXIII, 1953
  • ED Mackerness: Thomas Mace and the Fact of Reasonableness , The Monthly Musical Record LXXXV, 1955

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hannu Annala, Heiki Matlik: Handbook of Guitar and Lute Composers , p. 36, Mel Bay Pubn Inc., 2007, ISBN 0-7866-5844-4 (English)
  2. ↑ Helmut KH Lange: This is how I play and teach Chopin. Analyzes and Interpretations , p. 50 ( Google Books (PDF) ), Franz Steiner Verlag, ISBN 3-515-05772-2
personal data
SURNAME Mace, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English musician and music writer
DATE OF BIRTH around 1613
PLACE OF BIRTH Cambridge
DATE OF DEATH 1709