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.

TAN'SUR, William (?1699-1783)

Published by Printed for Stanley Crowder, London, 1772

About this Item

Size: 8vo. xiii, [i], 232pp. + frontispiece. 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. First edition. RISM B/VI/2 p.818. Gregory p.263.

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Bibliographic Details

• 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.
• Publisher: Printed for Stanley Crowder, London
• Publication Date: 1772
• Binding: Hardcover