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Notated Music Thorough bass simplified, or, The whole theory & practice of thorough bass, laid open to the meanest capacity. Exemplified by short & easy rules tending to explain the nature & origin of all the chords and figures used in this science, with exercises, applicable to each rule, extracted from the compositions of Handel, Corelli, Geminiani, Tartini, Sacchini, &c. &c.

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  • Thorough bass simplified, or, The whole theory & practice of thorough bass, laid open to the meanest capacity. Exemplified by short & easy rules tending to explain the nature & origin of all the chords and figures used in this science, with exercises, applicable to each rule, extracted from the compositions of Handel, Corelli, Geminiani, Tartini, Sacchini, &c. &c.

Names

  • Corfe, Joseph, 1741-1820.

Created / Published

  • London : Printed and pub. by Peston at his wholesale warehouses, 97 Strand, [1805?]

Headings

  • -  Continuo

Notes

  • -  Engraved, with the exception of the 2d and 3d preliminary leaves.

Medium

  • 56 p. of music ; 26 x 34 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • MT49 .C78
  • Microfilm Music 5000 Item C-084, Reel 50 Microfilm. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, [1982]. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. On reel with other titles.
  • MT49 .C78 Copy 2. With: A concise treatise on thorough bass ... / by James Nicholson. London : Printed & sold at Bland & Weller's Music Warehouse, 1796? Bound subsequent to publication.
  • MT49 .C78a Another issue. London : Printed and published by Preston at his wholesale warehouses, 71 Dean St. Soho. Late of the Strand, [18--]

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  • 12018610

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Corfe, Joseph. Thorough bass simplified, or, The whole theory & practice of thorough bass, laid open to the meanest capacity. Exemplified by short & easy rules tending to explain the nature & origin of all the chords and figures used in this science, with exercises, applicable to each rule, extracted from the compositions of Handel, Corelli, Geminiani, Tartini, Sacchini, &c. &c. [London: Printed and pub. by Peston at his wholesale warehouses, 97 Strand, ?, 1805] Notated Music. https://www.loc.gov/item/12018610/.

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Corfe, J. (1805) Thorough bass simplified, or, The whole theory & practice of thorough bass, laid open to the meanest capacity. Exemplified by short & easy rules tending to explain the nature & origin of all the chords and figures used in this science, with exercises, applicable to each rule, extracted from the compositions of Handel, Corelli, Geminiani, Tartini, Sacchini, &c. &c. [London: Printed and pub. by Peston at his wholesale warehouses, 97 Strand, ?] [Notated Music] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/12018610/.

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Corfe, Joseph. Thorough bass simplified, or, The whole theory & practice of thorough bass, laid open to the meanest capacity. Exemplified by short & easy rules tending to explain the nature & origin of all the chords and figures used in this science, with exercises, applicable to each rule, extracted from the compositions of Handel, Corelli, Geminiani, Tartini, Sacchini, &c. &c. [London: Printed and pub. by Peston at his wholesale warehouses, 97 Strand, ?, 1805] Notated Music. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/12018610/>.