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.
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1714
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Compendium of practical musick

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London : printed by W. P. for John Young Musical-Instrument Seller, at the Dolphin and Crown in St. Paul's-Church-Yard: and also sold by John Walsh, at the Harp and Haut-Boy, in Catherine-Street in the Strand, 1714.

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[14],144p.,plate : ill.,music,port. ; 80.

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The sixth edition with additions: ..

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ESTC N3056

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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

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