Composition: A Briefe and Short Instruction on the Art of Musicke (Bevin, Elway)

Title A Briefe and Short Instruction on the Art of Musicke
Alternative title A briefe and short instruction of the art of musicke : to teach how to make discant, of all proportions that are in vse: very necessary for all such as are desirous to attaine to knowledge in the art ; and may by practice, if they can sing, soone be able to compose three, foure, and five parts: and also to compose all sorts of canons that are usuall, by these directions of two or three parts in one, upon the plain-song
Creators Elway Bevin (composer)
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Instrumentation 3 Unspecified instruments
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First published 1631
Dedication Bishop of Gloucester
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Composition types Music theory, Canons
Language English
Period Renaissance
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Details Section Type Publisher Date File
view Complete London: R. Young 1631 Complete book · view

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