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Notated Music Entire new and compleat instructions for the fife, containing the best and easiest directions to learn that instrument, with a collection of the most celebrated marches, airs &c perform'd in the Guards & other regiments. N.B. The tunes in this book are proper for the German flute

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  • Entire new and compleat instructions for the fife, containing the best and easiest directions to learn that instrument, with a collection of the most celebrated marches, airs &c perform'd in the Guards & other regiments. N.B. The tunes in this book are proper for the German flute

Created / Published

  • London : Printed by Longman and Broderip, [1700?]

Headings

  • -  Fife--Instruction and study--Early works to 1800

Notes

  • -  Frontispiece colored by hand. Engraved throughout.
  • -  An earlier edition, London, D. Rutherfoord [1756?] has title: The compleat tutor for the fifte.

Medium

  • 1 p. l., 36 p. ; 17 x 24 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • MT356 .C62
  • Microfilm Music 5000 Item ANON-119, 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

  • 2017564027

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Entire new and compleat instructions for the fife, containing the best and easiest directions to learn that instrument, with a collection of the most celebrated marches, airs &c perform'd in the Guards & other regiments. N.B. The tunes in this book are proper for the German flute. [London: Printed by Longman and Broderip, ?, 1700] Notated Music. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2017564027/.

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(1700) Entire new and compleat instructions for the fife, containing the best and easiest directions to learn that instrument, with a collection of the most celebrated marches, airs &c perform'd in the Guards & other regiments. N.B. The tunes in this book are proper for the German flute. [London: Printed by Longman and Broderip, ?] [Notated Music] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2017564027/.

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Entire new and compleat instructions for the fife, containing the best and easiest directions to learn that instrument, with a collection of the most celebrated marches, airs &c perform'd in the Guards & other regiments. N.B. The tunes in this book are proper for the German flute. [London: Printed by Longman and Broderip, ?, 1700] Notated Music. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2017564027/>.