A compendium : or, Introduction to practical music. In five parts. Teaching, by a new and easy method. I. The rudiments of song. II. The principles of composition. III. The use of discords. IV. The form of figurate descant. V. The contrivance of canon. By Christopher Sympson. The eighth 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 music. In five parts. Teaching, by a new and easy method. I. The rudiments of song. II. The principles of composition. III. The use of discords. IV. The form of figurate descant. V. The contrivance of canon. By Christopher Sympson. The eighth 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

Imprint: London : Printed by W. Pearson : for Arthur Bettersworth : and Charles Hitch [...] : Samuel Birt [...] : John Clarke [...] : Thomas Astley [...] : and John Oswald [...], 1732
Publisher: Pearson, William (flor. 1700-1725 (1732?))
Publisher: Bettesworth, Arthur (flor. 1699-1739)
Publisher: Hitch, Charles (-1764)
Publisher: Birt, Samuel (-1755)
Publisher: Clarke, John (flor. 1697-1760)
Publisher: Astley, Thomas (fl. 1726-1759)
Publisher: Oswald, John (flor. 1726-1753)

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

ISBD: See ISBD format; A compendium : or, Introduction to practical music. In five parts. Teaching, by a new and easy method. I. The rudiments of song. II. The principles of composition. III. The use of discords. IV. The form of figurate descant. V. The contrivance of canon. By Christopher Sympson. The eighth edition, with additions : much more correct than any former, the examples being put in the most useful cliffs [...]. - London : Printed by W. Pearson : for Arthur Bettersworth : and Charles Hitch [...] : Samuel Birt [...] : John Clarke [...] : Thomas Astley [...] : and John Oswald [...], 1732. - [16], 144 p : portr., mus. ; 8vo. - Sig. A-K8. - 2 copies of which one without portrait. - RISM B VI, p. 785. - Portrait drawn and engraved by W. Faithorne. Sending to the author by John Jenkin.

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