The art of singing; in three parts: viz. I. The musical primer, II. The Christian harmony, III. The musical magazine.; Part I[-III]
By Andrew Law, A.M. author of the Select harmony, Rudiments of music, &c.; Published according to act of Congress
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- E-Book
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- Cheshire; Connecticut : [Printed and sold by William Law], M.DCC.XCIV. [i.e., 1794-1796]
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- Doolittle, Samuel , engraver
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- English
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- Item content: English
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- Each part also issued separately. Part II, The Christian harmony, is in 2 v., the 2nd published in 1796. Part I and v. 1 and 2 of Part II each have a general title page (i.e., for The art of singing) and a special title page with the title for the part. Part III, The musical magazine, has special title page only. Described on that title page as "Number first" and with imprint date of 1792, it in fact contains numbers 1-4, first published separately, 1792-1795, here collected and accompanied by an index.
Printer's name from general title pages to Part II, v. 1 and 2, and from title page to The musical magazine.
According to Evans, the plates were engraved by Amos Doolittle and printed by William Law, while the letterpress printing was done by Elisha Babcock. Crawford identifies Samuel Doolittle as engraver of the plates. Page 64 of The musical magazine signed: S Doolitle, sculp. Cf. Crawford, R.A. Andrew Law, American psalmodist, 1968, p. 120.
Evans 27204
Trumbull, J.H. Connecticut (suppl.), 2315
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- 16 pages, 17-32 pages of plates; 6 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 9-64 pages of plates; vii, 1 unnumbered page, 9-56 pages of plates; 4 pages, 64 pages of plates : music ; 13 x 22 cm
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- Z1215 .L393 1794eb
- OCLC Numbers:
- 62831255