Notated Music The pleasant companion: or, New lessons and instructions for the flagelet

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Title

  • The pleasant companion: or, New lessons and instructions for the flagelet

Other Title

  • Pleasant companion
  • New lessons and instructions for the flagelet

Names

  • Greeting, Thomas, -1682

Created / Published

  • London, J. Playford, 1680.

Headings

  • -  Flageolet--Instruction and study--Early works to 1800
  • -  Tablature (Music)--Early works to 1800

Notes

  • -  Signatures: Title-page (verson blank) unsigned, A⁴-H⁴.
  • -  The music, 70 tunes in tablature, with caption, "Lessons for the flagelett," is engraved. The 1st ed. apparently contained 20 leaves of music, extending through sig. E, the last page in which is marked "Finis." The 2nd ed. (1673) added 8 leaves of music, extending through sig. G, the last page in which is marked "Finis." This edition adds 4 leaves of music, through sig. H, the last page in which is also marked "Finis."
  • -  Quotation in manuscript from Pepy's diary, Feb. 28, 1666-67 and manuscript note concerning 1682 edition on fly-leaves.

Medium

  • 1 p.l., [8] p. ; [64] p. (music) 10 x 17 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • MT359 .G86
  • ML30.4b no. 516 Miller Copy 2.

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 42026035

Online Format

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The quotation regarding Dr. Miller and his gold flute comes from an article by Robert S. Shankland, "Dayton Clarence Miller: Physics Across Fifty Years." American Journal of Physics 9(October 1941):273-283. LC call number: QC1.A47. It was reprinted here with permission from the American Journal of Physics 9(October 1941):278. Copyright 1941, American Association of Physics Teachers. Should you wish to quote from this article, please contact:

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Greeting, Thomas, -1682. The pleasant companion: or, New lessons and instructions for the flagelet. London, J. Playford, 1680. Notated Music. https://www.loc.gov/item/42026035/.

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Greeting, T. (1680) The pleasant companion: or, New lessons and instructions for the flagelet. London, J. Playford. [Notated Music] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/42026035/.

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Greeting, Thomas, -1682. The pleasant companion: or, New lessons and instructions for the flagelet. London, J. Playford, 1680. Notated Music. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/42026035/>.