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Book/Printed Material The compleat tutor for the German flute, containing the best and easiest instructions for learners to obtain a proficiency. Translated from the French. To which is added a choice collection of ye most celebrated Italian, English & Scotch tunes, curiously adapted to that instrument

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Title

  • The compleat tutor for the German flute, containing the best and easiest instructions for learners to obtain a proficiency. Translated from the French. To which is added a choice collection of ye most celebrated Italian, English & Scotch tunes, curiously adapted to that instrument

Names

  • Prelleur, Peter, 1705?-1741

Created / Published

  • London : Printed for J. Simpson, [approximately 1746]

Headings

  • -  Flute--Instruction and study--Early works to 1800
  • -  Flute music--Early works to 1800

Notes

  • -  The text, p. 1-13, is an altered version of The newest method for learners on the German flute, pt. 3 of Peter Prelleur's Modern musick-master, London, 1730. The "Newest Method: is itself a free translation from Hotteterre's Principes de la flute traversière, Paris, 1707.
  • -  "A dictionary" and advertising matter: 2 p. at end.
  • -  LC copy incomplete: p. 1-2 (fold.chart) and 31-38 wanting.

Medium

  • 38, 2 p. ; 22 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • MT342 .C65 1746
  • Microfilm Music 5000 Item ANON-109, Reel 219 Microfilm. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, [1984]. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. On reel with other titles.

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 10013640

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  • image

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Prelleur, Peter, 1705?-1741. The compleat tutor for the German flute, containing the best and easiest instructions for learners to obtain a proficiency. Translated from the French. To which is added a choice collection of ye most celebrated Italian, English & Scotch tunes, curiously adapted to that instrument. [London: Printed for J. Simpson, approximately, 1746] Image. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/10013640/.

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Prelleur, P. (1746) The compleat tutor for the German flute, containing the best and easiest instructions for learners to obtain a proficiency. Translated from the French. To which is added a choice collection of ye most celebrated Italian, English & Scotch tunes, curiously adapted to that instrument. [London: Printed for J. Simpson, approximately] [Image] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/10013640/.

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Prelleur, Peter, 1705?-1741. The compleat tutor for the German flute, containing the best and easiest instructions for learners to obtain a proficiency. Translated from the French. To which is added a choice collection of ye most celebrated Italian, English & Scotch tunes, curiously adapted to that instrument. [London: Printed for J. Simpson, approximately, 1746] Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/10013640/>.