Complete Encyclopaedia of Music/A/Alsted

by John Weeks Moore

Alsted, or ALSTEDIUS, JOHN HENRY, a German divine, wrote, among other works, the following, which was translated into English : "Templum Musicum, being a compendium of the rudiments both of the mathematical and practical parts of music, on which subject not any book is extant in the English tongue. Faithfully translated out of the Latin, by John Birchensha. Lon-don, 1664." This book consists of little more than nearly unintelligible and dry definitions. Alstedius died in 1638.