A breefe introduction to the skill of musick for song & violl / by J.P.
- Title
- A breefe introduction to the skill of musick for song & violl / by J.P.
- Author
- Playford, John, 1623-1686?
- Publication
- London :: [s.n.],
- 1654.
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- Subject terms
- Music -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. -- Early works to 1800.
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- Cite this Item
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"A breefe introduction to the skill of musick for song & violl / by J.P." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A55042.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 2, 2024.
Contents
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To all Lovers & Practitioners OF
MƲSICK. -
treatise
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CHAP. I. Of the Scale of MUSICK, called theGam-ut. -
CHAP. II. Of the Cliffs or Cleaves. -
CHAP. III. A briefe Rule for the proving the Notes in any Song or Lesson. -
CHAP. IV. Containing a plain and easie Rule for the naming your Notes in any Cleave. -
CHAP. V. Of Tones, or Tunes of Notes. -
CHAP. VI. The Notes, their names, proportions, and their Rest or pauses, with directions for keeping Time. -
CHAP. VII. Of the Moods or Proportions of the Time, or measure of Notes. -
CHAP. VIII. The five Graecian Moods their Names.1. TheDorick, 2. theLydian, 3. theAeolick, 4. thePhrygian, 5. theIonick. -
A Preface, or Briefe Discourse of the nature and use of the
Scale orGam-ut. -
Heere followeth some plaine Directions for the
Basse Violl, orVioll de Gambo. -
A Table to finde all
Notes usuall on theBasse Violl, eitherflat orsharp, beginning at thesixth string, and so upwards to the rest, still ascending to the highest Note on the first orTreble string, according to the sevenFrets. -
Two short Lessons to begin on the
Bass Viol.
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Musick Books lately Printed for
John Playford, & are to be sold at his shop in the Inner Temple; near the Church doore.