Heck John Caspar
1740 ?- 1791

Écrits relatifs à la musique

Short and fundamental instructions for learning thorough bass. Wherein the whole system is laid open and thereby many new and important discoveries made by means of which a person may soon attain to a compleat understanding both of the theory and practice of thoroughbass. For greater plainness digested into ye form of question and answer by John Casper Heck.

• London 1760 (6 exemplaires conservés)
  • GB : Cambridge, King’s College - Cardiff, Public Library - Glasgow, Euing Musical library - London, British museum
  • US: New York, N. Y., Music Division, New York Public Library - Rochester, N.Y., Sibley Music Library, Eastman School of Music.
• Fac-similé numérisé

The art of fingering. Or, the easiest and surest method how to learn to play on the harpsichord [...] exemplified by a gradation of fine lessons[...] each lesson being mark'd with the most proper manner of fingering. To which is added a table of all the different keys, shewing the different manner of fingering the same. As also an explanation of all graces, shakes [...] by John Casper Heck

• London, W. Randall & J. Abell v. 1766 (3 exemplaires conservés)
• London, for Wright and Wilkinson v. 1782 (1 exemplaire conservé)
  • GB : London, British Museum London - Royal College of Music
  • US: New York, N. Y., Music Division, New York Public Library - Washington, D.C., Music Division, Library of Congress.
• Fac-similé, Washington, Library of Congress

The art of playing the harpsichord, to which is added a collection of lessons [...] selected from some of the most eminent classic authors illustrated by a variety of examples

• London, Welcker v. 1770 (2 exemplaires conservés : GB: London, Royal Academy of Music - London, British Museum)

The art of playing thorough bass with correctness according to the true principles of composition; fully explained by a great variety of examples in various stiles, to which are added, by way of suppliment six lessons of accompaniment [...] the whole being designed for the use of such young composers and performers in general as are desirous of being well grounded in the science of harmony. By John Casper Heck

• London, J. Welcker v. 1777 (6 exemplaires conservés); London, John Preston 1793 (11 exemplaires conservés)
  • GB: London, Royal Academy of Music - London, British Museum - London, Royal College of Music
  • I : Assisi, Archivio di S. Rufino
  • NL: Den Haag, Gemeente Museum - US: Washington, D.C., Music Division, Library of Congress
  • 1793, B : Bruxelles, Bibliothèque Royale - D: Berlin, Deutsche Staatsbibliothek
  • GB: Cambridge, Pendlebury Library - Cambridge, University Library - Glasgow, Euing Musical library - London, British Museum - London, Royal College of Music
  • US: Chicago, Ill. Newberry library - Haveford, Pa., Haveford College library - New Haven, Conn., School of Music Library - Washington, D.C., Music Division, Library of Congress.
• Fac-similé, Washington, Library of Congress.

A Complet system of harmony, or a regular and easy method to attain a fundamental knowledge and practice of thorough bass; with the nature and various use of concords ans discords explained con-formable to the modern composition. Illustrated by a variety of examples, by John Casper Heck

• London, the author v. 1780 (13 exemplaires conservés)
  • B : Bruxelles, Bibliothèque Royale
• GB: Cambridge, King’s College - Cambridge, University Library - Glasgow, Euing Musical library - London, Royal Academy of Music - London, British Museum - London, Royal College of Music - Manchester, Public Library
• US: Ann Arbor, Mich., William L. Clements Library University of Michigan - Boston, Mass., Rare Book Departement, Boston Public Library - New York, N. Y., Music Division, New York Public Library - Rochester, N.Y., Sibley Music Library, Eastman School of Music - Washington, D.C., Music Division, Library of Congress.
• Fac-similé, Washington, Library of Congress.

The musical Library and universal magazine of harmonie, containing curious, entertaining and inter-esting subjects relative to the history and practice of music [...] The whole being interspersed with a great variety of compositions in various stiles, vocal and instrumental, selected from the works of the most celebrated masters who flourished in this century [...] By John Caspar Heck

• London, J. Welcker v. 1780 (1 exemplaire conservé : US: Washington, D.C., Music Division, Library of Congress ).
• Fac-similé, Washington, Library of Congress.

 Jean-Marc Warszawski
Dictionnaire des écrits relatifs à la musique
Novembre 1995-26 février 2023

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