The praise of musicke
Subtitle: wherein besides the antiquitie, dignitie, delectation, & vse thereof in ciuill matters, is also declared the sober and lawfull vse of the same in the congregation and church of God
Series: Early English books online
Publisher: By Ioseph Barnes printer to the Vniuersitie
Published: 1586
Place of publication: Printed at Oxenford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 152
Subjects: Music; Early works to 1800; Music in churches
Other titles: Praise of mvsicke; Praise of music
Notes: Printed chiefly in black letter type.

Sometimes attributed to John Case, possibly by confusion with his "Apologia musices"

Signatures: *⁴ A-I⁸ K⁴.

New Grove dictionary of music and musicians, III, p. 852

STC (2nd ed.) 20184

Madan, I, p.20

ESTC S115011

Armorial bookplate of the Earls of Macclesfield, designated "North Library", dated 1860, and with ms. shelf mark "13.A.18"; ms. table of contents for the volume on front free endpaper, in an early hand; ownership signature: Tho: Langley.

Bound with a fragment, [Runic inscriptions](S.l., 16--?) and Anakreontos Tēiou Melē: Anacreontis Teii Carmina (London, 1695).

Bound in early 18th-cent. polished calf; spine gilt in compartments, with red lettering-piece; edges stained red.