Thomas Salmon: Writings on Music - Volume I: An Essay to the Advancement of Musick and the Ensuing Controversy, 1672-3

Thomas Salmon (1647-1706) is remembered today for the fury with which Matthew Locke greeted his first foray into musical writing, the Essay to the Advancement of Musick (1672), and the near-farcical level to which the subsequent pamphlet dispute quickly descended. Beneath the unedifying invective employed by Salmon, Locke and their supporters howev