CORSARI, Nicola. Istituzioni di canto fermo e fratto, Naples, dalla tipografia Orsiniana, 1806
4to. 86ff. 3 folding engraved plates of music, numerous examples of music in red and black, on four and five staves, lightly browned throughout, small brown stain in upper fore-corners in the first 4 leaves, in contemporary quarter vellum, flat spine gilt with leather title label.
FIRST EDITION of Corsari's rare and excellent treatise on plain chant and more modern liturgical music. The body of the work deals with the technicalities of both kinds of music giving numerous examples while the last twenty-nine pages are devoted to two compositions. The first (Christus with organ accompaniment by D. Giuseppe Cervelli) is contained in four pages while the second (a mass for two voices with organ accompaniment by D. Alessandro Speranza) is contained in the remainder.
£750
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