The theater of music: or, A choice collection of the newest and best songs sung at the court, and public theaters. : The words composed by the most ingenious wits of the age, and set to music by the greatest masters in that science. With a thorow-bass to each song for the theorbo, or bass-viol. Also symphonies and retornels in 3 parts to several of them, for the violins and flutes. The third book.
1686
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The theater of music: or, A choice collection of the newest and best songs sung at the court, and public theaters. : The words composed by the most ingenious wits of the age, and set to music by the greatest masters in that science. With a thorow-bass to each song for the theorbo, or bass-viol. Also symphonies and retornels in 3 parts to several of them, for the violins and flutes. The third book.
Uniform title
Theater of music. Book 3.
Created/published
London : Printed for Henry Playford and R.C. and sold by Henry Playford near the Temple Church, and John Carr at the Middle-Temple Gate, 1686.
Description
[4], 56 p. : music ; (fol.)
Note
Compiled by Henry Playford and edited by Henry Purcell and John Blow.
Cited/described in
Day & Murrie, no. 86
Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (CD-ROM, 1996), P2440
English short title catalogue (ESTC), R231600
Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (CD-ROM, 1996), P2440
English short title catalogue (ESTC), R231600
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Item Details
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P2440 Bd.w. P2438
Folger-specific note
9/8/42.3. With: Books 1-2 and 4. Cambridge-style binding with manuscript marking "N.93[?]" on front cover. Manuscript numbered "6" above the headlines of the rectos of each leaf. Provenance: inscription on front paste-down: "R. [Robert?] Nares."