A new book of tablature, containing sundry easy and familiar instructions, showing how to attain to the knowledge, to guide and dispose thy hand to play on sundry instruments, as the lute, orpharion, and bandora ... Collected together [by William Barley] out of the best authors, etc.

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Standardised Title	A new book of tablature, containing sundry easy and familiar instructions, showing how to attain to the knowledge, to guide and dispose thy hand to play on sundry instruments, as the lute, orpharion, and bandora ... Collected together [by William Barley] out of the best authors, etc.
Transcribed Title	A nevv Booke of Tabliture, Containing / sundrie easie and familiar Instructions , shevving hovve to attaine to the knovvledge , / to guide and dispose thy hand to play on sundry Instruments , as the Lute , Orpharion, / and Bandora : Together vvith diuers nevv Lessons to each of these Instruments. / Whereunto is added an introduction to Prickesong and certaine familliar rules of Descant, with other / necessarie Tables plainely shewing the true vse of the Scale or Gamut, and also how to set any Lesson / higher or lower at your pleasure. / Collected together out of the best Authors professing the practise of these Instruments.
Date	1596
Imprint	Printed at London for William Barley and are to be sold at his shop in Gratious street, 1596.
Place	London, England
Subject	Lute music
Type	Printed music
Source	British Library K.1.c.18. [first section]
Related Resource	Howard Mayer Brown, Instrumental Music Printed Before 1600: A Bibliography (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1965), 1596/4.

Identifiers

RISM B/I, 1596²⁰

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William Barley’s New book of tablature comprises pieces in tablature in for solo lute (first section of publication), solo orpharion (second section) and solo bandora (third section). Issued as one publication, but with three distinct sections each with their own running titles.

Indexed names

Cutting, Francis, composer. 
Dowland, John, 1563?-1626, composer.  
Barley, William, d. 1614, editor.
 

 

Table of Contents

Instruction to the lute: The x. Commandements / [Anon]; Example / [Anon]; A Pavan for the Lute / F.C.; A Pavan for the Lute / F.C.; Lacrime / I.D.; A Paven for the Lute (At end: Pipers Pavin) / I.D; A Pavin for the Lute (At end: An Almaine) / F.C.; Fortune / ID; A Pavin for the Lute (At the end: A Galliarde) / Fr. C.