BERARD (Jean Antoine). The art of the song dedicated to Mada - Lot 8

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BERARD (Jean Antoine). The art of the song dedicated to Mada - Lot 8
BERARD (Jean Antoine). The art of the song dedicated to Madam de Pompadour. Dessaint and Saillant... Paris 1755. FIRST EDITION. 1 f. blank / 1 f. title / 1 f. "a madame de Pompadour" / 6 ff. preface / 158 pp. plate of the "phonic organs" between pp. 8 and 9 / 3 ff. tables / 34 pp. engraved scores / 2 blank ff. In-8° contemporary calf with smooth spine decorated with fleurons, red morocco title page, red edges. Small handwritten bookplate in ink on the first blank page of 1839. Some foxing on the title page, spines cracked, corners bumped, as is. Bérard (1701-1772), countertenor, cellist, guitarist, harpist, actor and composer. Rameau wrote for him a role in the Indes Galantes. He taught singing from 1745. This treatise allows us to better understand baroque singing.
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