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And grant that a man read all the books of music that ever were wrote, I shall not allow that music is or can be understood out of them, no more than the taste of meats out of cookish receipt books.

Roger North

For a profest architect is proud, opiniative and troublesome, seldom at hand, and a head workman pretending to the designing part, is full of paltry vulgar contrivances; therefore be your owne architect, or sitt still.

Roger North

Roger North

Roger North

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Born: September 3, 1651

Died: March 1, 1734 (aged 82)

Bio: Roger North was an English lawyer, biographer, and amateur musician.

Known for:

Memoirs of musick
Notes of me
Roger North's the musicall grammarian
A Discourse on the Study of the Laws

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