A compendium : or, Introduction to practical musick in five parts. Teaching, by a new and easie method, 1. The rudiments of song. 2. The principles of composition. 3. The use of discords. 4. The form of figuarate descant. 5. The contrivance of canon. By Christopher Simpson. The fourth edition with additions : much more correct than any former, the examples being put in the most useful cliffs

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Title: A compendium : or, Introduction to practical musick in five parts. Teaching, by a new and easie method, 1. The rudiments of song. 2. The principles of composition. 3. The use of discords. 4. The form of figuarate descant. 5. The contrivance of canon. By Christopher Simpson. The fourth edition with additions : much more correct than any former, the examples being put in the most useful cliffs

Author(s): Simpson, Christopher (160?-1669) - mus. Compiler
Author(s): Faithorne, William (c.1616-1691) - graveur et portraitiste anglais. Engraver
Author(s): Jenkins, John (1592-1678). Author

Author (note): Portrait drawn and engraved by W. Faithorne; Sending to the author by John Jenkins

ISBD: See ISBD format; A compendium : or, Introduction to practical musick in five parts. Teaching, by a new and easie method, 1. The rudiments of song. 2. The principles of composition. 3. The use of discords. 4. The form of figuarate descant. 5. The contrivance of canon. By Christopher Simpson. The fourth edition with additions : much more correct than any former, the examples being put in the most useful cliffs. - London : Printed by W. Pearson : for John Cullen [...], 1706. - [16], 144 p : portr., mus. ; 8vo. - Sig. A-K8. - RISM B VI, p. 785. - Portrait drawn and engraved by W. Faithorne. Sending to the author by John Jenkins. - Price 2 S.

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