Michel L'Affilard
Michel L'Affilard was a French tenor singer and the writer of a notable book on singing.Biography
L'Affilard sang in the choir of Louis XIV from 1683 to 1708, with a salary of 900 livres. He also composed airs de cour.
L'Affilard's work on sight-singing, Principes trés faciles pour bien apprendre la musique, passed through seven editions. In it, the tempo of the airs is regulated by Joseph Sauveur's pendulum, the precursor of the metronome. The book has become an important source on music practice of the time.
A facsimile edition was produced in Geneva in 1971,.
