Souhaitty, Jean-Jacques
Souhaitty, Jean-Jacques
Souhaitty, Jean-Jacques, French music theorist who flourished in the mid 17th century. He was active in Paris as a Franciscan monk. He was the first to employ number notation, indicating by the numerals 1 to 7 the degrees of the scale, and used this system for popular teaching. He publ. Nouvelle méthode pour apprendre le plain-chant et la musique (Paris, 1665; second ed. as Nouveaux éléments de chant, ou L’essay d’une nouvelle découverte quón a fait dans l’art de chanter, 1677) and Essai du chant de l’église par la nouvelle méthode des chiffres (Paris, 1679).
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