A nevv booke of tabliture : containing sundrie easie and familiar instructions, shevving hovve to attaine to the knovvledge, to guide and dispose thy hand to play on sundry instruments, as the lute, orpharion, and bandora: together vvith diuers nevv lessons to each of these instruments. VVhereunto is added an introduction to prickesong, and certaine familliar rules of descant, with other necessarie tables plainely shewing the true vse of the scale or gamut, and also how to set any lesson higher or lower at your pleasure. Collected together out of the best authors professing the practise of these instruments.
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| Language: | English |
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Printed at London :
[By J. Danter] for William Barley and are to be sold at his shop in Gratious street,
1596.
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| Series: | Early English books online.
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| Item Description: | Dedication signed: VV.B., id est William Barley. Printer's name from STC. "An introduction to prickesong" = "The pathway to musicke" (STC 19464, possibly edited by Barley), with which this was intended to be issued. Signatures: A-F⁴ [G]¹; chi¹, ² A4, ² B-D⁴; ² chi¹, ³A3-4, ³B-D⁴. "A nevv booke of tabliture for the orpharion" and "A nevv booke of tabliture for the bandora" have separate title pages and register. Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery (reel 375:17), and British Library (reel 2319:1). Imperfect: copy at reel 375:17 lacking all after lute part; copy at reel 2319:1 does not contain STC 19464. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource ([108] pages : illustrations, music. |