Roger North KC, English lawyer, biographer, and amateur musician, was the sixth son of the 4th Baron North. He acquired a good practice at the bar, being helped by his elder brother Francis, who became lord chancellor and was created Baron Guilford, and in 1684 he became solicitor-general to the Duke of York. In 1685, he was chosen as a Tory Member of Parliament for Dunwich.

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  • Roger North KC, English lawyer, biographer, and amateur musician, was the sixth son of the 4th Baron North. He acquired a good practice at the bar, being helped by his elder brother Francis, who became lord chancellor and was created Baron Guilford, and in 1684 he became solicitor-general to the Duke of York. In 1685, he was chosen as a Tory Member of Parliament for Dunwich. But the Revolution stopped his advancement, and he retired to his estate of Rougham in Norfolk, and increased his fortune by marrying the daughter of Sir Robert Gayer. He collected books, and was constantly occupied in writing. But he is best known for his Lives of the Norths, published after his death, together with his own autobiography (see the edition in Bohns Standard Library, 1890, by Jessopp), a classic authority for the period. His comments on musical performance practice, in particular, have proven invaluable for musicologists researching the Baroque style in England. In addition to his writing on performance practice he wrote on musical aesthetics, on pedagogy, and on tuning and temperament; one of his most important achievements in this regard was devising a practical and detailed system for mean-tone tuning in the age before equal temperament. He died at Rougham on 1 March 1734, leaving a family from whom the Norths of Rougham are descended.
  • Roger North war ein englischer Rechtsanwalt, Biograf und Musiktheoretiker. Er war der sechste Sohn von Dudley North, dem 4. Baron North. Er erwarb gute juristische Kenntnisse im Anwaltsstand, wobei ihn sein Bruder Francis unterstützte, der später Lordkanzler war. 1684 wurde North General solicitor. Der Bürgerkrieg beendete seinen Aufstieg. Er zog sich auf sein Anwesen Rougham in Norfolk zurück und heiratete. Von ihm stammt die Familie der Norths of Rougham ab. North sammelte Bücher und beschäftigte sich mit Schriftstellerei. Seine bekanntesten Werke sind Lives of the Norths, die posthum mit seiner Autobiografie Notes of me veröffentlicht wurden; letztere gilt als zuverlässige zeitgeschichtliche Quelle. Vor allem seine Anmerkungen zur musikalischen Aufführungspraxis waren von hohem musikhistorischem Wert für die Erforschung der englischen Barockmusik. Daneben schrieb North über Musikästhetik und -pädagogik und über Fragen der Stimmung. Eine seiner bedeutendsten Leistungen auf diesem Gebiet war der theoretische und praktische Entwurf einer mitteltönigen Stimmung vor dem Zeitalter der gleichstufigen Stimmung.
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  • 1685–1689
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  • Roger North KC, English lawyer, biographer, and amateur musician, was the sixth son of the 4th Baron North. He acquired a good practice at the bar, being helped by his elder brother Francis, who became lord chancellor and was created Baron Guilford, and in 1684 he became solicitor-general to the Duke of York. In 1685, he was chosen as a Tory Member of Parliament for Dunwich.
  • Roger North war ein englischer Rechtsanwalt, Biograf und Musiktheoretiker. Er war der sechste Sohn von Dudley North, dem 4. Baron North. Er erwarb gute juristische Kenntnisse im Anwaltsstand, wobei ihn sein Bruder Francis unterstützte, der später Lordkanzler war. 1684 wurde North General solicitor. Der Bürgerkrieg beendete seinen Aufstieg. Er zog sich auf sein Anwesen Rougham in Norfolk zurück und heiratete. Von ihm stammt die Familie der Norths of Rougham ab.
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  • Roger North (17th century)
  • Roger North
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