Apollo's Banquet
Editions in the Wighton Collection
1st edn.
Wants title page (p. 1) which has been substituted in MS by text from an advertisement in Playford's "Musick's Hand-Maid". pp. 2-4 in MS. The airs are numbered 1 to 222, with the following irregularities: nos. 168 & 185 are each used twice for 2 different airs; nos 5, 6, 32, 49, 130, 163 & 221 are omitted. Nos. 205 & 219 are the same air under the same name. Nos. 31 & 44 are the same air under different names, as are 99 & 106, 72 & 119, 23 & 57. Nos. 176 & 200 are variant sets of the same air. The 84 pages of music are unnumbered. Microfiche available. (John Playford)
Apollo's Banquet:
Containing instructions and variety of new tunes, ayres, jiggs, and several new Scotch tunes for the treble violin, to which is added the tunes of the newest French dances.
6th. edn. 1690 (Henry Playford)
( From the Sixth Edition ) The 1st. book of Apollo's Banquet:
Containing instructions, and variety of new tunes, ayres, jiggs, minuets and several new Scotch tunes, for the treble violin, to which is added the tunes of the newest French dances, now in use at Court and in the dancing schools.
The 7th. edn 1693 (Henry Playford)
