Robert Bremner

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This article is about the Scottish music publisher. For the American politician, see Robert G. Bremner. For the professor of history, see Robert H. Bremner.

Robert Bremner or Brymer (

Monthly Review of Ralph Griffiths as providing church-goers an easy way to "considerably improve their psalmody, by attending to the very plain and practical rules contained in this judicious tract".[5]

Bremner's business acumen served him well in the late 1750s. He published

guineas at the sale of Johann Christoph Pepusch's library and later presented it to Lord Fitzwilliam.[3]

Bremner was once a violin student of Francesco Geminiani, but disagreed with his mentor on the use of vibrato, which Geminiani advocated be used "as often as possible".[6] Bremner's Some Thoughts on the Performance of Concert Music, a preface to his publication of J.G.C. Schetky's 6 Quartettos opus 6 (1777), makes clear his opinions. If vibrato is "introduced into harmony", he writes, "where the beauty and energy of the performance depend upon the united effect of all parts being exactly in tune with each other, it becomes hurtful."[7] Bremner may have even used his publishing position to censor his teacher's opinions. He republished Geminiani's 1751 The Art of Playing on the Violin in 1777, but three passages were left out in the reissue. One of them detailed the "more agreeable" sound provided by vibrato, which Geminiani deemed "the Close Shake".[8]

Bremner died at his home in

will left the greater part of his estate to Ellen and £761 13s 1d each to his two sons.[1]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c Alburger.
  2. ^ a b Brown and Stratton 59.
  3. ^ a b c Johnson.
  4. ^ Welch.
  5. ^ Monthly Review 324.
  6. ^ Jackson 54.
  7. ^ Beechey 245.
  8. ^ Hickman 73.
  9. ^ Quoted in Johnson.

References

  • Alburger, Mary Anne (September 2004). "Bremner , Robert (c.1713–1789)" (subscription required). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 28 January 2008.
  • Beechey, Gwilym (1983). "Robert Bremner and his Thoughts on the Performance of Concert Music". Musical Quarterly LXIX (2): 244–252.
  • Brown, James D. and Stephen S. Stratton (1897). British Musical Biography: A Dictionary of Musical Artists, Authors, and Composers, Born in Britain and Its Colonies. Birmingham: S. S. Stratton.
  • Hickman, Roger (1983). "The censored publications of The Art of Playing on the Violin, or Geminiani unshaken". Early Music 11 (1): 73–76.
  • Jackson, Roland (2005). Performance Practice: A Dictionary-guide for Musicians. Routledge.
    ISBN 0-415-94139-3
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  • Johnson, David. "Bremner, Robert". Grove Music Online (subscription required). ed. L. Macy. Retrieved 29 January 2008.
  • Monthly Review (1763). ed. Ralph Griffiths
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  • Jones, David Wyn (1978). "Robert Bremner and The Periodical Overture." Soundings 7 (1978): 63–84.
  • Welch, David. "Church Music in NE Scotland in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries". West Gallery Music Association. Retrieved 29 January 2008.

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