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Composition (Music) - Early works to 1800

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    A compendium: or, introduction to practical music. In five parts. Teaching, by a New and Easy Method, 1. The Rudiments of Song. 2. The Principles of Composition. 3. The Use of Discords. 4. The Form of Figurate Descant. 5. The Contrivance of Canon. By Christopher Sympson. Much more Correct than any Former, the Examples being put in the most useful Cliffs.

    Simpson, Christopher, -1669. | Date: 1714
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    Easy and fundamental instructions Whereby either vocal or instrumental performers unacquainted with composition may from the mere knowledge of the most common intervals in music, learn how to introduce extempore embellishments or variations; as also ornamental cadences, with propriety, tast, and regularity. Translated from a famous treatise on music, written by John Joachin Quantz. Composer to His Majesty the King of Prussia.

    Quantz, Johann Joachim, 1697-1773. | Date: [1775?]
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    The British fair.

    | Date: [1765?]
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    Avviso ai compositori, ed ai cantanti

    Riva, Giuseppe, 1696- | Date: MDCCXXVIII. [1728]
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    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 Figurate Descant. 5. The Contrivance of Cannon. By Christopher Simpson.

    Simpson, Christopher, -1669. | Date: [1714]
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