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| Id |
23381 |
| Category |
antiquarian book |
| Author / Composer |
TAN'SUR, William (?1699-1783) |
| Title |
The Elements of Music Display'd or, its Grammar, or Ground-Work Made easy: Rudimental, Practical, Philosophical, Historical, and Technical. In Five Books. Containing, I, An universal Introduction to ... Musick ...; II, Of Time ... With Directions to Performance ...; III, The Structure of Musical Instruments ... with Sacred Lessons; Songs in Parts, and Tunes for Instruments; IV, The Theory of Sound ...; V, A New Musical-Dictionary .... The whole ... collected from the Greatest Masters. |
| Place |
London |
| Publisher |
Printed for Stanley Crowder |
| Publication Date |
1772 |
| ISBN / Plate No. |
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| Series |
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| Size |
8vo. xiii, [i], 232pp. + frontispiece. |
| Description |
Modern quarter calf, with marbled boards, gilt title on morocco. Partly hand-coloured portrait frontispiece, Typeset music examples, lists and tables, title within decorative border. Each book has a separate title page. Those of books II and III bear the date 1767. A few spots and small stains. |
| Reference |
First edition. RISM B/VI/2 p.818. Gregory p.263. |
| Price |
£750.00 |
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