A compendium: or, Introduction to practical music. : In five parts. : Teaching, by a new and easy method. I. The rudiments of song. II. The principles of composition. III. The use of discords. IV. The form of figurate descant. V. The contrivance of canon.

- publisher: London : Printed by W. Pearson, for Arthur Bettesworth, and Charles Hitch ... Samuel Birt ... John Clarke ... Thomas Astley ... and John Oswald ...
- creator: Simpson, Christopher, d. 1669
- Keyword: Composition (Music) Music Instruction and study.
- years: 1732.
- pages: [14], 144 p., [1] leaf of plates :
- class: MT40.A2
- notes: Mispagination: p. 96 numbered 79.
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