Vossius, Isaac
(1618–1689)
ISAAC VOSSIUSVOSSIUS, ISAACISAAC VOSSIUS [* 1618-† 1689] The resurrection of ancient musical practices was, to numerous authors of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, a desirable goal. The Netherlander Isaac Vossius regarded the poetic meters of the Greeks as the source of their music's reported affective powers. In his De poematum cantu et viribus rhythmi (1673), written after he had migrated to England, Vossius presented an extensive account of poetic meters and advocated that…