Andreas Orostander’s Compendium musicum

A Swedish music primer from the late seventeenth century, edited and translated, with introduction and commentary.

Authors

  • Mattias Lundberg
  • Peter Sjökvist

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Author Biographies

Mattias Lundberg

Dr. Mattias Lundberg is research fellow at the Department of Musicology, University of Uppsala, and librarian at the Rare Collections of the Music library of Sweden (on research leave as from October 2009). His scholarly interests include critical editing, relationships between musical theory and practice, and the study of compositional procedures, particularly pertaining to contrapuntal music. Recent and forthcoming articles cover topics of musical librarianship in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and counterpoint teaching models from the early eighteenth century.

Peter Sjökvist

Dr. Peter Sjökvist is postdoctoral researcher in Latin at the Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University, and librarian at the Library of Södertörn University College, within the project of cataloguing a large collection of dissertations dating from c.1600– 1850. His Ph.D. thesis treated the early Latin poetry of the Swedish poet Sylvester Johannis Phrygius. Presently he is preparing a new edition, with translation, introduction and commentary, of the Latin music dissertations De sono, De modis and De tactu, which are all connected with the Uppsala professor Harald Vallerius (1646–1716).

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Published

2010-05-31

How to Cite

Lundberg, M., & Sjökvist, P. (2010). Andreas Orostander’s Compendium musicum: A Swedish music primer from the late seventeenth century, edited and translated, with introduction and commentary. Svensk Tidskrift för Musikforskning Swedish Journal of Music Research, 92, 51–112. Retrieved from https://publicera.kb.se/stm-sjm/article/view/34093

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Vol. 92 (2010)

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