Musick Books by John Playford in the Wighton Collection. (Other thanThe Dancing Master)

• Apollo's Banquet. Select Tunes and Jiggs for the Treble-Violin

  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.

  For notes on author attribution, see 6th edn.

• Short Rules and Directions for Practitioners on the Treble Violin

  This is the first edition of "Apollo's Banquet" and catalogued elsewhere as such.

  Conserved by Riley, Dunn and Wilson 1995.

  Microfiche available.

• A brief introduction to the skill of musick for song and viol. in 2 books

  First book contains the grounds and rules of musick for song. Second book. Directions for the playing on the viol de gambo, and also on the treble violin.

• The Musical Companion

  Containing catches and rounds for 3 voyces, and dialogues, glees, ballads and ayres, in several varieties, some for 2, 3, 4 voyces.

  In 2 parts. (wants title of 1st. part, and pp. 123-28, 150, 152 and 175-6 of 2nd. part).

• The Musical Companion

  Containing catches and rounds for 3 voyces, and dialogues, glees, ayres and songs for 2, 3 and 4 voyces, in 2 books.

  Microfiche available

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• Musick's Hand-Maid

  Lessons and instructions for the virginals or harpsichord.

• The Theater of Music

  or, a choice collection of the newest and best songs sung at the Courts and public theaters, the words composed by the most ingenious wits of the age, and set to music by the masters in that science, with a theorbo-bass to each song for the theorbo, or bass-viol, also symphonies and retornels in 3 parts to several of them for the violins and flutes.

  In 4 books.

  Microfiche available.

• The Whole Book of Psalms

  with the usual hymns and spiritual songs, together with all the ancient and proper tunes sung in churches, with some of later use, compos'd in 3 parts.

  15th edn.

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