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Book/Printed Material The art of fingering, Or, The easiest and surest method how to learn to play on the harpichord with propriety and exemplified by a gradation of fine lessons from the easiest to more difficult compositions by some of the most eminant masters, each lesson being mark'd with the most proper manner of fingering, to which is added a table of all the different keys, shewing the different manner of fingering the same : as also an explanation of all graces, shakes, &c. ...

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  • The art of fingering, Or, The easiest and surest method how to learn to play on the harpichord with propriety and exemplified by a gradation of fine lessons from the easiest to more difficult compositions by some of the most eminant masters, each lesson being mark'd with the most proper manner of fingering, to which is added a table of all the different keys, shewing the different manner of fingering the same : as also an explanation of all graces, shakes, &c. ...

Names

  • Heck, Johann Caspar, 1740-

Created / Published

  • London : W. Randall & I. Abell, [177-?]

Headings

  • -  Harpsichord--Instruction and study

Notes

  • -  Engraved throughout.

Medium

  • 1 p. l., 35 p. ; 24 x 32 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • MT252 .H45
  • Microfilm Music 5000 Item H-020, Reel 88 Microfilm. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, [1982]. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. On reel with other titles.

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 12018595

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  • image

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Heck, Johann Caspar. The art of fingering, Or, The easiest and surest method how to learn to play on the harpichord with propriety and exemplified by a gradation of fine lessons from the easiest to more difficult compositions by some of the most eminant masters, each lesson being mark'd with the most proper manner of fingering, to which is added a table of all the different keys, shewing the different manner of fingering the same: as also an explanation of all graces, shakes, &c. [London: W. Randall & I. Abell, 177-?, 1770] Image. https://www.loc.gov/item/12018595/.

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Heck, J. C. (1770) The art of fingering, Or, The easiest and surest method how to learn to play on the harpichord with propriety and exemplified by a gradation of fine lessons from the easiest to more difficult compositions by some of the most eminant masters, each lesson being mark'd with the most proper manner of fingering, to which is added a table of all the different keys, shewing the different manner of fingering the same: as also an explanation of all graces, shakes, &c. [London: W. Randall & I. Abell, 177-?] [Image] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/12018595/.

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Heck, Johann Caspar. The art of fingering, Or, The easiest and surest method how to learn to play on the harpichord with propriety and exemplified by a gradation of fine lessons from the easiest to more difficult compositions by some of the most eminant masters, each lesson being mark'd with the most proper manner of fingering, to which is added a table of all the different keys, shewing the different manner of fingering the same: as also an explanation of all graces, shakes, &c. [London: W. Randall & I. Abell, 177-?, 1770] Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/12018595/>.