Diletsky, Nikola (1677)

Musical Grammar [1723]

Kiev, 1970. Folio. 94 pp. of facsimile + 109 pp. of modern transcriptions and commentary. Nubbed cloth boards with gold stamping. Slight fading to spine, otherwise fine.
A facsimile of a 1723 Ukrainian manuscript treatise by Nikola Diletsky on the theory of music [Musikiskaya grammatika], which first appeared as Toga zlota in 1675. The commentary is mostly in Russian with precis in German and English.
FAC-07564$400