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Book/Printed Material The present practice of musick vindicated against the exceptions and new way of attaining musick lately publish'd by Thomas Salmon, M. A. &c

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Title

  • The present practice of musick vindicated against the exceptions and new way of attaining musick lately publish'd by Thomas Salmon, M. A. &c

Names

  • Locke, Matthew, 1621 or 1622-1677
  • Phillips, John, 1631-1706
  • Playford, John, 1623-1686?

Created / Published

  • London : N. Brooke [etc.], 1673.

Headings

  • -  Salmon, Thomas,--1648-1706.--Vindication of An essay to the advancement of musick
  • -  Musical notation

Notes

  • -  "In 1672 an extraordinary controversy commenced between Locke and Thomas Salmon, who had published An essay to the advancement of musick by casting away the perplexity of different cliffs ... Locke attacked the work in Observations upon a late book entitled An essay, etc. ... to which Salmon replied in A vindication of his essay ... and Locke in 1673 retorted in The present practice of music vindicated."--Grove, Dict. of music and musicians.

Medium

  • 2 p. l., 96 p. ; 17 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • ML432.A2 S22
  • Microfilm Music 5000 Item L-090, Reel 113 Microfilm. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, [1983]. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. On reel with other titles.

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 08016367

OCLC Number

  • 15362184

Online Format

  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Locke, Matthew, 1621 Or, John Phillips, and John Playford. The present practice of musick vindicated against the exceptions and new way of attaining musick lately publish'd by Thomas Salmon, M. A. &c. [London: N. Brooke etc, 1673] Image. https://www.loc.gov/item/08016367/.

APA citation style:

Locke, M., Phillips, J. & Playford, J. (1673) The present practice of musick vindicated against the exceptions and new way of attaining musick lately publish'd by Thomas Salmon, M. A. &c. [London: N. Brooke etc] [Image] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/08016367/.

MLA citation style:

Locke, Matthew, 1621 Or, John Phillips, and John Playford. The present practice of musick vindicated against the exceptions and new way of attaining musick lately publish'd by Thomas Salmon, M. A. &c. [London: N. Brooke etc, 1673] Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/08016367/>.