[Calliope, or, English harmony : a collection of the most celebrated English and Scots songs neatly engrav'd and embelish'd with designs adapted to the subject of each song taken from the compositions of the best masters in the most correct manner with the thorough bass and transpositions for the flute (proper for all teachers scholars and lovers of musick printed on a fine paper on each side which renders the undertaking more compleat than any thing of the kind ever publish'd.
Inglis, Alexander Wood,1854-1929former owner.StEdNL
[London : Engrav'd & sold by Henry Roberts engraver & printseller ...] ,
[1746].
Library copy: imperfect: p. 17-198 of Vol. 2; heavily mutilated: p. 37-8, 99-100 partial cut to engraving at the top, p. 51-2, 55-6, 57-8, 127-8 engraving at top cut, p. 103-104 torn.
Mostly for high voice and continuo (some for 2 voices & continuo); part for flute (i.e. recorder) at end of each song.
Vol. 1 has frontis., [6] p., followed by [109] leaves engraved in facing pairs, after which are p. 73-200 engraved on both sides.
Head-pieces.
Includes the Scottish song The lass of peaty's mill
CBEL
Humphries & Smith
Bequeathed by Alexander Wood Inglis of Glencorse (1854-1929) 1929.
Songs (High voice) with continuo.
Songs, English.