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Book/Printed Material Synopsis of vocal musick: containing the rudiments of singing rightly any harmonical song, delivered in a method so solid, short and plain, that this art may now be learned more exactly, speedily and easily, than ever heretofore. Whereunto are added several psalms and songs of three parts. Composed by English and Italian authors for the benefit of young beginners

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  • Synopsis of vocal musick: containing the rudiments of singing rightly any harmonical song, delivered in a method so solid, short and plain, that this art may now be learned more exactly, speedily and easily, than ever heretofore. Whereunto are added several psalms and songs of three parts. Composed by English and Italian authors for the benefit of young beginners

Names

  • A. B., Philo-Mus
  • Gastoldi, Giovanni Giacomo, active 1582-1609

Created / Published

  • London : Printed for Dorman Newman ..., 1680.

Contents

  • Synopsis of vocal musik -- Twelve most usual tunes of psalms : in three parts. Treble. mean. and bass -- Twelve selected English tunes in three parts. Two trebles and a bass -- Twelve selected English catches. A. 3. voc. -- Fourteen Italian songs composed by Giovanni Giacomo Castoldi da Carravaggio [Gio. Giac. Gastoldi].

Headings

  • -  Sight-singing
  • -  Songs, English

Notes

  • -  "A very rare book. 3 copies only known to be extant, one in the British museum, one in the Royal library of Belgium at Brussels, and this copy."--Ms. note on fly-leaf.
  • -  With errata ([3] p.)--at end.
  • -  Ex libris William Hayman Cummings.
  • -  Bound in full brown levant morocco, inside gilt borders, by Zaehnsdorf. 1895.

Medium

  • [10], 135, [7] pages : music ; 11 x 21 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • MT830.A2 S9
  • Microfilm Music 5000 Item ANON-099, Reel 218 Microfilm. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, [1984]. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. On reel with other titles.

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  • 20010871

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A. B., Philo-Mus, and Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi. Synopsis of vocal musick: containing the rudiments of singing rightly any harmonical song, delivered in a method so solid, short and plain, that this art may now be learned more exactly, speedily and easily, than ever heretofore. Whereunto are added several psalms and songs of three parts. Composed by English and Italianauthors for the benefit of young beginners. London: Printed for Dorman Newman, 1680. Image. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/20010871/.

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A. B, P. & Gastoldi, G. G. (1680) Synopsis of vocal musick: containing the rudiments of singing rightly any harmonical song, delivered in a method so solid, short and plain, that this art may now be learned more exactly, speedily and easily, than ever heretofore. Whereunto are added several psalms and songs of three parts. Composed by English and Italianauthors for the benefit of young beginners. London: Printed for Dorman Newman. [Image] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/20010871/.

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A. B., Philo-Mus, and Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi. Synopsis of vocal musick: containing the rudiments of singing rightly any harmonical song, delivered in a method so solid, short and plain, that this art may now be learned more exactly, speedily and easily, than ever heretofore. Whereunto are added several psalms and songs of three parts. Composed by English and Italianauthors for the benefit of young beginners. London: Printed for Dorman Newman, 1680. Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/20010871/>.