Bibliographic Details
| Author / Creator: | Playford, John, 1623-1686?
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| Uniform title: | Breefe introduction to the skill of musick.
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| Imprint: | London : printed by William Godbid for John Playford, and are to be sold by Zach. Watkins, at their shop in the Temple near the Church-Dore, 1664.
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| Description: | [20], 109, [5], 45, [1] p. : ill. (port.), music
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| Language: | English |
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| Series: | Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1997:5.
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| Format: | Microform
E-Resource
Book
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| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5178789 |
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Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | Composing music in parts.
Art of descant.
Brief introduction to the playing on the viol.
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| Other uniform titles: | Simpson, Christopher, -1669.
Campion, Thomas, 1567-1620. Art of descant: or, Composing of music in parts.
Art of descant: or, Composing of music in parts.
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| Notes: | Frontis. = ill.
First edition published in 1654 as "A breefe introduction to the skill of musick, for song and viall." According to Grove's Dictionary of music, but one copy of that impression is now known.
The preface is signed: John Playford.
"A brief introduction to the playing on the viol" and "The art of descant or Composing of musick in parts" have separate dated title pages; register is continuous; pagination begins anew with "The Art of descant".
First edition of Campion's "Art of descant" published ca. 1610, with title: A new way of making foure parts in counter-point. Cf. STC.
With advertisement on final page.
Reproduction of the original in the Harvard University Library.
Wing (2nd ed.) P2450A.
Available electronically as part of Early English books online.
University of Chicago has also on microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1990. 1 microfilm reel 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700; 1997:5).
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