Roger North (1653 – March 1, 1734), English lawyer, biographer, and amateur musician, was the sixth son of the 4th Baron North. Events February 2 - New Amsterdam (later renamed New York City) is incorporated. ... March 1 is the 60th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (61st in leap years). ... Events January 8 - Premiere of George Frideric Handels opera Ariodante at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. ... Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: God Save the King/Queen Capital London Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Unification    - by Athelstan AD 927  Area    - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK)   50,346 sq mi  Population    - 2005 est. ... English barrister 16th century painting of a civil law notary, by Flemish painter Quentin Massys. ... This article needs cleanup. ... Dudley North, 4th Baron North (1602-1677), increased the family fortune by marrying the daughter of Sir Charles Montagu, brother of the 1st earl of Manchester. ...

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. 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. Francis North, 1st Baron Guilford (1637 - 1685), was the third son of the 4th Baron North, and was created Baron Guilford in 1683, after becoming lord keeper in succession to Lord Nottingham. ... The English Civil War (or Wars) refers to the series of armed conflicts and political machinations which took place between Parliamentarians and Royalists from 1642 until 1651, specifically to the first (1642–1645) and second (1648–1649) civil wars between the supporters of Charles I of England and...

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. A musicologist is someone who studies musicology. ... Baroque music describes an era and a set of styles of European classical music which were in widespread use between approximately 1600 to 1750 (see Dates of classical music eras for a discussion of the problems inherent in defining the beginning and end points). ... The Parthenons facade showing an interpretation of golden rectangles in its proportions. ... In music, there are two common meanings for tuning: Tuning practice The act of tuning an instrument or voice. ... Meantone temperament is a system of musical tuning. ...

He died at Rougham on the 1st of March 1734, leaving a family from whom the Norths of Rougham are descended.

Sources and references

• This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
• Roger North's The Musicall Grammarian and Theory of Sounds: digests of the manuscripts, ed. M. Chan and J. C. Kassler, University of New South Wales, Kensington, 1988.