Jerome-Joseph de Momigny

Jerome-Joseph de Momigny (January 20th 1762 - August 25th 1842), was Compositeur and Musicologue. He was born with Philippeville in Belgium, lived and worked in France where he died in the asylum of Charenton.

Jerome-Joseph de Momigny composed of the parts of music and wrote books which it printed itself. Its theories in connection with the rate/rhythm and of phrased musical were in advance over its time. In 1806 it published its most known work, complete Cours of harmony and composition according to a new theory (in 3 volumes). It is reproduced there, inter alia, a theory on the significance of the survey compared to struck, which was not accepted by the Academy but which was taken again later by Hugo Riemann. According to Momigny, the survey anticipates struck and all the musical sentence must thus be played or sung with more weight than this last. Such a Phrasé is typical for the Jazz and certain traditional interpreters also practice it.

Source

Albert Palm, Jerome-Joseph de Momigny: Leben und Werk , Köln, Volk, 1969.
Glenn Gerald Caldwell, Harmonic Tonality in the Music Theories off Jerome-Joseph Momigny , 1762-1842 (Studies in the History and Interpretation off Music, V. 79.) (September 1 2001).

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