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Choice ayres & songs to sing to the theorbu-lut or bass-viol

Anne Godbid and John Playford worked as partners to print music, a format which was considerably more difficult to produce than text. The music included in this volume was not composed by Playford, merely collected by him, and printed after the success of an earlier, similar book. While music printed from engraved plates began appearing in England in 1613, this music seems to be printed from movable type, using woodblock initials for ornamentation.

Turner, William

Choice ayres & songs to sing to the theorbo-lute, or bass-viol. : being most of the newest ayres and songs, sung at court, and at the publick theatres / composed by several gentlemen of His Majesties musick, and others. The second book.

1679

Printed by Anne Godbid, and are sold by John Playford near the Temple Church

London

English

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Playford, John. Choice ayres & songs to sing to the theorbu-lut or bass-viol. Vol. 2. London: Anne Go[d]bid, and Sold by John Playford, 1679.