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This work lists and describes all of the 400 books containing music for instruments that were published during the sixteenth century, when instrumental music was born. This bibliography covers music for virtually every sixteenth-century instrument, and every one of the usual combinations of instruments with voices: music for solo lute, guitar, vihuela, harpsicord or organ, music for voice and one accompanying instrument, and for instrumental ensembles, and treatises devoted to instrumental playing and such practices as ornamentation.Brown, Howard Mayer is the author of 'Instrumental Music Printed before 1600: A Bibliography', published 1965 under ISBN 9780674456105 and ISBN 0674456106.
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