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Book/Printed Material Directions for playing on the flute, with a scale for transposing any piece of musick to ye properest keys for that instrument. To which is added a choice collection of minuets, jiggs, song-tunes, & aires in two parts

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Title

  • Directions for playing on the flute, with a scale for transposing any piece of musick to ye properest keys for that instrument. To which is added a choice collection of minuets, jiggs, song-tunes, & aires in two parts

Names

  • Cooke, Benjamin, active 1726-1743
  • Prelleur, Peter, 1705?-1741

Created / Published

  • London : Printed for & sold by B. Cooke at the Golden Harp in New Street Covent Garden, [173-?]

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 Directions for playing on the flute, pt. 2 of Peter Prelleur's The modern music-master, London, 1730.
  • -  "A dictionary" : 3 p. at end.

Medium

  • 30, 3 p. : music ; 25 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • MT342 .D5
  • Microfilm Music 5000 Item ANON-118, 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

  • 17031246

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Cooke, Benjamin, Active, and Peter Prelleur. Directions for playing on the flute, with a scale for transposing any piece of musick to ye properest keys for that instrument. To which is added a choice collection of minuets, jiggs, song-tunes, & aires in two parts. [London: Printed for & sold by B. Cooke at the Golden Harp in New Street Covent Garden, 173-?, 1730] Image. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/17031246/.

APA citation style:

Cooke, B. & Prelleur, P. (1730) Directions for playing on the flute, with a scale for transposing any piece of musick to ye properest keys for that instrument. To which is added a choice collection of minuets, jiggs, song-tunes, & aires in two parts. [London: Printed for & sold by B. Cooke at the Golden Harp in New Street Covent Garden, 173-?] [Image] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/17031246/.

MLA citation style:

Cooke, Benjamin, Active, and Peter Prelleur. Directions for playing on the flute, with a scale for transposing any piece of musick to ye properest keys for that instrument. To which is added a choice collection of minuets, jiggs, song-tunes, & aires in two parts. [London: Printed for & sold by B. Cooke at the Golden Harp in New Street Covent Garden, 173-?, 1730] Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/17031246/>.