Antonio Eximeno Pujades, (Valencia, on September 26, 1729 - Rome, on June 9, 1808), Jesuit, mathematician, philosopher and Spanish musicologist.
His great book Dell'origine e delle regole della musica colla storia del suo progresso, decadenza, e rinnovazione. Roma, Michel'Angelo Barbiellini, 1774 ("Of the origin and rules on music") was an important item in his time.
Eximeno had the honor of being included in Menéndez Pelayo's monumental work "History of the Spanish Heterodox".
In the appendix of the Italian edition Dell'origine e delle regole della musica (pag 537) appears, in the first line, scored a canadian inuit chant, maybe the earliest transcription of this subject.
Inuit Women (Credit: J.E. Bernier / Library and Archives Canada / C-001499)
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