Burmeister, Joachim
(1564–1629)
JOACHIM BURMEISTERBURMEISTER, JOACHIMJOACHIM BURMEISTER [* 1564-† 1629] Joachim Burmeister's Hypomnematum musicae poeticae synopsis (1599) and its two revisions (1601 and 1606) inaugurated a new and important direction for theoretical inquiry, one in which the relationship between rhetoric and music was treated systematically. Though the numerous terms which Burmeister borrowed from rhetorical theory (mainly from Lucas Lossius's Erotemata dialecticae et rhetoricae Philippi Melanchtonis of 1562)…