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Book/Printed Material Musick's delight on the cithren, restored and refined to a more easie and pleasant manner of playing than formerly; and set forth with lessons al a mode, being the choicest of our late new ayres, corants, sarabands, tunes, and jiggs. To which is added several new songs and ayres to sing to the cithren

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  • Musick's delight on the cithren, restored and refined to a more easie and pleasant manner of playing than formerly; and set forth with lessons al a mode, being the choicest of our late new ayres, corants, sarabands, tunes, and jiggs. To which is added several new songs and ayres to sing to the cithren

Names

  • Playford, John, 1623-1686?

Created / Published

  • London : Printed by W. G[odbid] and are sold by J. Playford, 1666.

Headings

  • -  Cittern--Methods
  • -  Cittern music

Notes

  • -  Imperfect: wanting 4 l. (supplied in ms.)

Medium

  • 7 p. l., [96] p. : ill., music ; 11 x 17 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • MT590 .P5
  • Microfilm Music 5000 Item ADD-011, Reel 220 Microfilm. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, [1984]. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. On reel with other titles.

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 17031236

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  • image

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Playford, John, ?. Musick's delight on the cithren, restored and refined to a more easie and pleasant manner of playing than formerly; and set forth with lessons al a mode, being the choicest of our late new ayres, corants, sarabands, tunes, and jiggs. To which is added several new songs and ayres to sing to the cithren. [London: Printed by W. Godbid and are sold by J. Playford, 1666] Image. https://www.loc.gov/item/17031236/.

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Playford, J. (1666) Musick's delight on the cithren, restored and refined to a more easie and pleasant manner of playing than formerly; and set forth with lessons al a mode, being the choicest of our late new ayres, corants, sarabands, tunes, and jiggs. To which is added several new songs and ayres to sing to the cithren. [London: Printed by W. Godbid and are sold by J. Playford] [Image] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/17031236/.

MLA citation style:

Playford, John, ?. Musick's delight on the cithren, restored and refined to a more easie and pleasant manner of playing than formerly; and set forth with lessons al a mode, being the choicest of our late new ayres, corants, sarabands, tunes, and jiggs. To which is added several new songs and ayres to sing to the cithren. [London: Printed by W. Godbid and are sold by J. Playford, 1666] Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/17031236/>.