A compendium: or, introduction to practical music. In five parts. Teaching, by a New and Easy Method. I. The Rudiments of Song. II. The Principles of Composition. III. The Use of Discords. IV. The Form of Figurate Descant. V. The Contrivance of Canon. By Christopher Sympson.

All titles

• A compendium: or, introduction to practical music. In five parts. Teaching, by a New and Easy Method. I. The Rudiments of Song. II. The Principles of Composition. III. The Use of Discords. IV. The Form of Figurate Descant. V. The Contrivance of Canon. By Christopher Sympson.
• Compendium of practical musick

People / Organizations

• Christopher Simpson (Author)

Imprint

London: printed by W. Pearson, for Arthur Bettesworth, and Charles Hitch, in Pater-Noster-Row; Samuel Birt, in Ave-Mary-Lane; John Clarke, in Duck-Lane; Thomas Astley, in St. Paul's Church-Yard; and John Oswald, in Little-Britain, M.DCC.XXXII. [1732]

Publication year

1732-1732

ESTC No.

T77991

Grub Street ID

299900

Description

[16],144p. : ill.,port.,music ; 8⁰

Note

First published in 1667 as 'A compendium of practical musick'.

Uncontrolled note

Presumably the titlepage with John Oswald's name is a cancel, as one of our copies and the E copy lack the other one. The pagination includes it at present. Ill. = frontis