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  • Clementi/Tausig: Gradus ad Parnassum, ed. Gustav Damm (Steingräber-Verlag, n.d.).

    Deep covers Matthew Guerrieri 2008

  • In a description of Johannes Tinctoris's musical glossary, composed in 1475, Alfred Mann emphasizes that "when [Tinctoris] speaks of measurement from point to point, he quite obviously has in mind an analogy with mathematical concepts, and his formulation suggests indeed the imagination and draftsmanship of the masters of optical perspective" (Mann, introduction to Johann Joseph Fux's Gradus ad Parnassum, viii).

    Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

  • Clementi/Tausig: Gradus ad Parnassum, ed. Gustav Damm (Steingräber-Verlag, n.d.).

    Archive 2008-01-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008

  • One of the foremost Bach and Handel scholars of his era, Dr. Mann prepared modern English and German language editions of the J.J. Fux counterpoint treatise Gradus ad Parnassum which remain the standards throughout the world.

    Edith Weiss-Mann. 2009

  • Novena sat at a piano and played, incongruously but with great skill, "Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum," a fast, heavily arpeggiated piece by Claude Debussy.

    Sly Stone's Higher Power Kamp, David 2007

  • Parnassum (1817-1826), once studied by all budding pianists, lives on only in Debussy's affectionate caricature, "Dr. Gradus ad Parnassum," from the

    Finished Symphonies 1996

  • So up to the romantic period one could find manuals of painting, analogous to Fux's Gradus ad Parnassum

    NATURE GEORGE BOAS 1968

  • One of these works was Fux's 'Gradus ad Parnassum' (a treatise on composition and counterpoint), and the other Mattheson's 'Vollkommene

    Story-Lives of Great Musicians Francis Jameson Rowbotham

  • They are, to the full, as much mannerists, too, as the poetasters who ring changes on the common-places of magazine versification; and all the difference between them is, that they borrow their phrases from a different and a scantier _gradus ad Parnassum_.

    Early Reviews of English Poets John Louis Haney

  • Joseph Fux (1660-1741), the author of the _Gradus ad Parnassum_ on which all later classical composers were trained.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various

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