Very tall hardcover, lute music from the 1600s.

Jane Pickeringe's Lute Book: c. 1616-c. 1650 (London, British Library, MS Egerton 2046) (Musical Sources)

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When, in 1584, William Bathe, then just a young student at Oxford, published a tract on the teaching of music, his work became the first musical text book to appear in the English language. No copy of this work now exists, but some years later Bathe produced a new version, now called A brief Introduction to the skill of song. In it Bathe sought to present a new, much simpler way to learn music, in open opposition to the traditional approaches of the day, the "manifold and crabbed, confused, tedious rules", as he puts it. This book, a facsimile of Bathe's work, describes musical methods old and new and will be of great interest to musicologists and players of early music. Introduction by Bernarr Rainbow and published in the series ClassicTexts in Music Education.

A Briefe Introduction to the Skill of Song, c. 1587 (Classic Texts in Music Education, 3)

Rainbow, Bernarr

Bathe, William

The first developed statement of the Tonic Sol-fa method. The edition of 1852 has been chosen for reproduction because it contains a complete summary of the improvements successively introduced during the course of Curwen's empirical teaching.

Singing for Schools and Congregations (1852): A Grammar of Vocal Music with a Course of Lessons and Exercises (Classic Texts in Music Education, 14)

Curwen, John

Antiquities and Scenery of the County of Kilkenny

Phelan, Margaret

Robertson, James George

An Irish flower garden: The histories of some of our garden plants (Series five)

Nelson, E. Charles

The wood and the trees: Augustine Henry, a biography (Series five)

Pim, Sheila

The M.L. Lute Book, c.1610-40, London, British Library, Additional MS 38539, Generally Known as John Sturt s Lute Book Reproduced Four-Fifths Original Size (Musical Sources, No. 25)

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The lectures on music which Crotch delivered at Oxford after becoming Heyther Professor of Music in 1797 were the first of their kind. Illustrated by performed extracts from the neglected music of the past, they encouraged historical awareness of musical style and further stimulated the revival of early music.

Substance of Several Courses of Lectures on Music (1831) (Classic Texts in Music Education, 16)

Crotch, William

Written late in life, this remarkable book was described by Percy Scholes as offering the most practically valuable study of the art of teaching music in existence.The first book of its kind to appear in the language, it began by summarising principles common to the teaching of all subject, next applying those principles to the teaching of music. Even today the thoughtful reader will find himself impressed by Curwen's exposition of general educational principles expressed in jargon-free terms and supported by excerpts from the writings of the leading educatinal thinkers of his day. The text has been enlarged by four per cent for ease of reading.

The Teacher's Manual of the Tonic Sol-fa Method: Dealing with the Art of Teaching and the Teaching of Music (Classic Texts in Music Education) (Volume 19)

The standard work adopted by serious students of music during the first half of the nineteenth century, Crotch's manual was twice reprinted and remained sufficiently influential to merit a further edition in 1856, nine years after his death.

Elements of Musical Composition (1830) (Classic Texts in Music Education) (Volume 25)

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