Musical Philosophy Comprising The Transposition Of The Musical Keys In All Its Varied Forms

by Riley Root

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First edition

Galesburg, IL : Wm. J. Mourer, Book and Job Printer, 1866. First edition. 12mo. 20 pp. Title page and text printed within ornamental borders. Root 1795-1870 , a native of New York and a farmer, settled in Galesburg in 1836, traveled to the California gold fields in 1848 his memoir, “Journal of the Travels,” is an overland rarity , patented a number of inventions, and took up music, producing this treatise and “constructing a keyboard to

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