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Pasquali’s art of fingering the harpsichord. }

Pasquali’s Thorough bass made easy }in 1. vol. fol.

Zuccari’s method of playing Adagios }
1815 Catalogue, page 133, no. 9, as above, but reading fol.
PASQUALI, Nicolo.
The Art of Fingering the Harpsichord. Illustrated with Examples in Notes. To Which is Added, an approved Method of Tuning that Instrument. by Nicolo Pasquali. London: Price 3 sh. Printed and Sold by R: Bremner opposite Somerset House in the Strand. Where may be had, Thorough Bass made Easy by the same Author, 7 sh. 6 d. n.d.
MT252 .P3 1760a
Small and oblong folio; 16 leaves of text in small folio, engraved title and 8 leaves of plates with musical notation engraved on both sides in oblong folio.
Grove VI, 575.
Fétis VII, 167.
Rebound by the Library of Congress in half morocco, with the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate preserved.
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PASQUALI, Nicolo.
Thorough-Bass made Easy: or, Practical Rules for finding & applying its Various Chords with little Trouble; Together with Variety of Examples in Notes, shewing the manner of accompanying Concertos, Solos, Songs, and Recitatives: by Nicolo Pasquali. Price 7 sh. 6 d. London: printed and sold by R. Bremner, the Assigney of Sig: Pasquali, at his Music-Shop in the Strand.

  Where may be had, composed by the same Author, sh--d

  Art of Fingering the Harpsichord,........................................................3 -

  VI Solos for the Violin and Thorough-Bass, [Opera prima]..............5 -

  XII English Songs in Score, collected from his Masques and other Entertainments,......7 6

  XII Overtures and Symphonies, in parts,..........................................15 -
Small and oblong folio. 24 leaves of text in small folio, engraved title and 15 leaves in oblong folio with musical notation engraved on both sides.
Grove VI, 575.
Fétis VII, 167.
Not initialled by Jefferson, small manuscript corrections on page 42 of the text not by him. Over Bremner’s name in the imprint is pasted down a label with the imprint of Longman & Co.: Sold at Longman & C os. Music Shop N o 26 Cheapside.
Nicolo Pasquali, d. 1757, Italian violinist and composer, settled in Edinburgh in 1740. Thorough-Bass made easy was originally published in Edinburgh in the year of his death; The Art of Fingering the Harpsichord first appeared in the same city about three years later.
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ZUCCARI, Carlo.
The true Method of Playing an Adagio Made Easy by twelve Examples First. in a plain Manner with a Bass Then with all their Graces Adapted for those who Study the Violin composed by Carlo Zuccari of Milan. London: Printed by R: Bremner, at the Harp and Hautboy, opposite Somerset House in the Strand, n.d.
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