A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Affilard, Michel l'

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1502364A Dictionary of Music and Musicians — Affilard, Michel l'

AFFILARD, Michel l', a tenor singer in the choir of Louis XIV from 1683 to 1708, with a salary of 900 livres. His work on singing at sight, 'Principes très faciles,' etc., in which the time of the airs is regulated by a pendulum,—precursor of the metronome—passed through seven editions (Paris, 1691; Amsterdam, 1717.)

A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Affilard, Michel l'

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