An introduction to the skill of musick
Subtitle: in three books. The first contains the grounds and rules of musick, according to the gam-ut, and other principles thereof. The second: instrvctions and lessons both for the bass-viol and treble-viloin. The third, the art of descant, or composing of musick in parts, in a more plain and easie method than any heretofore published.
By: By John Playford.
Edition: 10th ed., cor. and enl.
Publisher: Printed by A. G[odbid] and J[ohn] P[layford the younger] for John Playford
Published: 1683
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 116
Subjects: Music -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. -- Early works to 1800; Violin -- Instruction and study -- Early works to 1800; Viola da gamba -- Instruction and study -- Early works to 1800; Counterpoint -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Early works to 1800.
Notes: The third part has separate paging and special t.p.: a brief introduction to the art of descant.
"A brief discourse of the Italian manner of singing ... written some years since by an English gentleman, who had lived long in Italy, and being returned, taught the same here": p. 34-49.
"The order of performing the divine service in cathedrals and collegiate chappels": p. 78-85.